hi
I have two operating systems installed on my system (windows98 &
windowsXP Servicepack2). My system works perfectly fine when i boot
with win98 but when i boot with WinXP it works fine for about 5 to 10
minutes and suddenly system restarts, doesn't give any error message.
absolutely no idea what the problem is. I have checked windows help but
didn't find any thing helpful. any help...........

i have installed following software on my WinXP
winamp5,
avast anti virus,
spywareblaster,
Ad-Aware

tutor4me wrote:
> I have two operating systems installed on my system (windows98 &
> windowsXP Servicepack2). My system works perfectly fine when i boot
> with win98 but when i boot with WinXP it works fine for about 5 to
> 10 minutes and suddenly system restarts, doesn't give any error
> message. absolutely no idea what the problem is. I have checked
> windows help but didn't find any thing helpful. any help...........
>
> i have installed following software on my WinXP
> winamp5,
> avast anti virus,
> spywareblaster,
> Ad-Aware

Nothing in the Event Logs...?
You are sure that your machine has sufficient cooling?
What antivirus are you running?
Does it matter if you are connected to the Internet or not?
Do/did you have your firewall up?

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tutor4me@gmail.com wrote:
> hi
> I have two operating systems installed on my system (windows98 &
> windowsXP Servicepack2). My system works perfectly fine when i boot
> with win98 but when i boot with WinXP it works fine for about 5 to 10
> minutes and suddenly system restarts, doesn't give any error message.
> absolutely no idea what the problem is. I have checked windows help but
> didn't find any thing helpful. any help...........
>
> i have installed following software on my WinXP
> winamp5,
> avast anti virus,
> spywareblaster,
> Ad-Aware
>


Trying turning off "automatically restart" under "system failure" and
see what the blue screen tells you, you should hopefully get some sort
of a filename or something at the top which will tell you where-abouts
the problem is occurring, alternatively it wont help at all and just
give you some non-indicative error, but more often than not it should
put you on the right track, also the system event logs may have
something to tell you, but there's a good chance depending on what
killed the system there wont be anything there to help you.

hi,
I am using avast antivirus.I don't think their is any problem with
system cooling its fine.

windows firewall is up.

Most of the time it restarted when i was connected to internet.

or installing windows updates.