One of the servers I use at work did this a couple of years ago. It
turned out that some update was encountering an issue where each night
it would download, try to install, fail, and reboot the machine. The
same update had no trouble when I installed it manually, but ever since
I keep Automatic Update set only to download and notify, and not to go
ahead and try to install on its own.
David Gillett
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] PC restarting
From: Felix Miata <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, April 01, 2010 4:11 pm
To: [log in to unmask]
On 2010/04/01 00:18 (GMT-0400) Bob & Betty Weis composed:
> I normally keep my PC running 24/7 and restart 3 times per week. I did a windows update about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Shortly after that I've had problems with the PC restarting sometime during the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes when I get up it has restated and appears to be normal, while other times it is constantly restarting--it will restart and 2 - 3 minutes it will restart again and keep up this cycling.
> I have run McAfee, Spybot, and Malware Bytes. All of these come back and don't show any problems.
> I need some help.
If it's more than a few years old, take a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague and pop the cover to have
a
looksee.
If you don't find any bad on the motherboard, pull the power supply and
look
inside it.
I've had success replacing bad ones on about 9 out of 12 tries, which is
replacing all of matching type to any that look bad. I buy mine from
http://www.mouser.com/ .
--
"Suppos [sic] a nation in some distant region, should
take the Bible for their only law book, and every member
should regulate his conduct by the precepts there
exhibited. . . . What a Eutopa, What a paradise would
this region be!" John Adams, 2nd US President
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
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