Being Shutdown

[NeWKiD]

i did a clean install of windows me to get away from the attacks i was getting under windows 2000. Everything is fresh but this time my computer is being rebooted by someone having a little fun...HELP!!

anti-trojan finds nothing
running zone alarm as well

i just want to surf in peace :P

[bug]

How do you know someone is remotely rebooting your PC?

[JANDOENT]

Hey NeWKiD, give us a little more info. Your 'puter justs decides to reboot by itself? Have you ran a virus scan by an update antivirus proggie? What proggies did you install after your clean install? By clean install, did you reformat with fdisk or did you install over your existing? Give us all of the details that you can and we will try to help you. http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/wink.gif

[NeWKiD]

well im not the one doing the rebooting...
its not frequent...but it just happened again minutes ago and i get the active desktop recovery screen.

i formatted my HD and did an install of Windows Me
...the only progs i have installed are
Microsoft Office 2000, WinZip, RaR, Winamp, Icq, Bulletproof, antitrojan, zone alarm

im keeping it pretty minimal so far just to feel things out

im going to run a virus scan right now and see if anything pops up

hope this helps

[NeWKiD]

no viruses...but i did get rebooted while running a scan http://www.speedguide.net/ubb/frown.gif

[bug]

One way to decisively pinpoint if you are being remotely attacked, it unplug your network cable from your NIC.

I suspect you have something else going on - hardware related. Like a weak/too small PS or bad/loose RAM...

[NeWKiD]

i don't know if its a hardware problem but i'll give it a try for the next few hours...
thanks

[fredra]

Just my two cents here.
One possible cause for re-booting is "heat"...if the case is NOT ventilated the heat bulds up inside the PC case....this has an adverse effect on the memory chips....the video card and the HD.
There are solutions....
Have a fan sucking air from the front....another pushing air out from the back (this should be separate from the power fan).....when you "overclock" a CPU, heat dissipitation is a major factor. You can go further and have a separate fan on the CPU and another fan on the video card.
However, first make sure that your power supply fan is working and the CPU fan is working.
Good Luck!!!

[NeWKiD]

usually when the heat is high on my system the alarm sounds and i haven't had this problem before...

thanks for all the input im trying out a bunch of things right now and we'll see if i can pinpoint something

[robrecc]

How much ram do you have--try booting with different chips at different times it could be just on chip. My system was rebooting itself about a year ago all the time it was a power supply issue.

[NeWKiD]

i only have one 128mb RAM chip...

but i did change the power supply about two months ago for a new one...

but its seems to only happen when im connected to the net...

[Storm90]

Sounds Like you might have a software conflict. Or a Irq conflict going on. Plus you might want to try different settings on your firewall if you have one. This will cause you to reboot to. But I would rather believe it is a conflict of some source. Just keep checking you will figure it out. Or like what was mentioned your men chip could be going bad.

[fredra]

Hey Newkid
May I venture a suggestion here?
Try to remove the case...leave it open...expose the MB and everything to the air...this will dissipitate heat. Check the operation of the new power supply (make sure the fan is blowing "OUT"...reseat all cards in their slots (you may wish to clean them with a white eraser (don't use the red ones)...also reseat the memory chips.
Just a suggestion.

[cih]

Originally posted by NeWKiD:
its seems to only happen when im connected to the net...

What kind of connection do you have? Dial-Up or Cable/DSL? I assume that you have Dial-Up, since you said only when I'm connected to the internet, which makes it seem like you're not constantly connected.

[NeWKiD]

sounds like a plan fredra

im giving it a try right now...
i'll get back to u in a few days of testing

cih...im on cable...i tried disconnecting my computer from the network