Philips Freevents Constantly Re-Booting help!!

All_eBayed_Out

For the past few days my PC keeps re-booting on its own at random times, it seemed to be when I had a lot of programs open and watching tv online. I've done a few things which didn't solve it & this afternoon last resort was that I have done a complete factory restore. It's now still doing the reboot thing, maybe a bit worse aswell, so the issue isn't software. I have got the PC case open at the moment as its logging in, & re-booting pretty much guaranteed within 5 minutes of logging in, or it doesnt even get to that stage. Nothing looks out of place inside, although my knowledge with hardware is limited. This is so frustrating!
Can anyone help with any suggestions?

ps Ive just seen a blue screen saying windows has detected.... and as soon as I read this the screen is gone again and I dont know what the whole page said. useless.

fiddiwebb

Is your OS Vista?

If it is try typing event viewer in your search and C&P the log here.

debitcardmayhem

Are the fans still spinning , there is usually a large one on the cpu and a small one on the bottom of the case it could be a overheating problem

Taffybiker

When you did your factory restore was the hard disk reformatted at that time, or did windows install over the top? If the latter then there could be some malware still lurking. If the former then certainly hardware related.

All_eBayed_Out

Yes I'm running Vista. Theres 3 fans all operating, one inside and two facing out the back. I will try and get an event log but it is doing it so much now it doesnt give me much time! I'm typing this from my laptop.

All_eBayed_Out

Could someone please explain exactly where I need to go in event viewer as I have never used this before and there seem to be lots of lists everywhere.

All_eBayed_Out

NtpClient was unable to set a manual peer to use as a time source because of DNS resolution error on 'time.windows.com,0x9'. NtpClient will try again in 15 minutes and double the reattempt interval thereafter. The error was: No such host is known. (0x80072AF9)
WLAN AutoConfig service has successfully stopped.
　
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"&gt;
- <System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Time-Service" Guid="{06EDCFEB-0FD0-4E53-ACCA-A6F8BBF81BCB}" EventSourceName="W32Time" />
<EventID Qualifiers="33370">134</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>3</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-01-30T18:03:28.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>2210</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Rach2-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData Name="MSG_MANUAL_PEER_DNS_ERROR">
<Data Name="ErrorMessage">No such host is known. (0x80072AF9)</Data>
<Data Name="RetryMinutes">15</Data>
<Data Name="DomainPeer">time.windows.com,0x9</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

All_eBayed_Out

Taffybiker, I think I did a complete install over everything because it kept saying are you sure you want to lose all personal data on the PC.

debitcardmayhem

The Event you posted above is just syncing the time won't affect whar you have experienced thus far. If you look at System events and click on the level column header the Error level will be sorted with Red Error events at the top
Look for ones around of the time last reboot ie just before that time