Re: OT-strange comp thing
 

You can also see the error message that would have been displayed by the blue screen in the Event Viewer administrative tool. You can make these appear in the start menu in the task bar properties dialogue.

Re: OT-strange comp thing
 

Have you checked the fans inside the computer? Just the other day at work I had to replace a bad processor fan which was causing a computer to constantly shut itself off... good thing we figured it out in time before the processor burned out!

Re: OT-strange comp thing
 

The problem doesn't happen if I'm just using the internet or low powered stuff (well ok it did reboot once when I was looking at a website), mostly it's when I'm in the middle of Star Wars Battlefront 2, which makes me think it's a heat thing. Anyway I have another suspicion I'd like input on. After that spyware trouble I had a few weeks ago my computer has a whole lot of anti-spyware things. Stuff like my AV software, then Microsoft Anti spyware, then SPysubtract, you get the picture. I read somewhere that having more than 1 AV program means they conflict with each other, might that be it?. I'd like to fix the problem as I plan to play DDO when it comes out and I don't want to be dropped in the middle of a dungeon with everyone else.

Re: OT-strange comp thing
 

After a week free, it happened again. I looked at the event log but have no idea what to look for. It has a record of the check it does when the computer was restarted without preparation but nothing just before that to say why it went and restarted.