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Dark Frager
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 00:06
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Hi

I'm posting this from my phone because my computer is really annoying me.
So, one day my computer randomly decides to start deleting all my files. It deleted about half (100gb's) before it stopped. Along with the deleted files went microsoft word. No biggie.

A few weeks later I was going to need to do my homework on my computer using word. Seeeing the installers were still there I begin installing. Halfway through the process a message comes up saying "the language of this installer is not suPported by your system" well ok I go to start again, bam. Computer restarts. No bsod just restarts like normal. I log in, a windows installer comes up trying to install a language pack I believe it was. Windows MUI or something. It then comes up saying
"Not enough memory or disk space to run word" after that message I have 1 minute left before it restarts.


So it stopped doing that for a while until this day. Nothing new has been done just regular things I do. Bam computer restarts. Just like before no bsod or anything, just restarts. Starts back again with the same routine as before. Tried shutting down, restarting, nothing. I'm sure its not an issue with hardware (only 50 percent sure) I was thinking to maybe delete some links in the registry or try something in safe mode, but I'm not going further until I hear some advice from you guys. Yes I did run a virus scan.




Thank you!!

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Fallout
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 00:16 Edited at: 27th Mar 2012 00:17
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Dodgy memory can cause random restarts. I got that on an old computer when I played RAM hungry games. It'd suddenly restart for apparently no reason, but later I determined it was writing to a dodgy sector and going kablammo. Changed the dodgy dimm and it worked fine after that.

Edit: Btw, if I had your problems with random deleted and Word not installing and all those other software issues I'd definitely format and reinstall the OS.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 00:29
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A faulty CD burner caused random restarts in our old PC.



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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 01:47
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And a fan problem causes overheating, and random restarts.

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JRH
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 02:26
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Not to mention brief power cuts...
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 17:06
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Fresh install and see how it runs, sounds like a virus.

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Dark Frager
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 18:28 Edited at: 27th Mar 2012 18:30
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tbh sometimes it starts up fine.

edit: like just now. I was thinking of a format but it happens once a month the most.

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Indicium
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I have the opposite problem, my comp likes to start up randomly while i sleep.

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Pincho Paxton
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Quote: "I have the opposite problem, my comp likes to start up randomly while i sleep."


... and your mom comes in to see porn on the screen. It is a very strange phenomenon.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 27th Mar 2012 21:07 Edited at: 27th Mar 2012 21:09
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Quote: "I have the opposite problem, my comp likes to start up randomly while i sleep."


It's possibly your mouse or a LAN card. I'd suggest running "powercfg lastwake" in command prompt to see what started your computer up last. You can then use device manager to disable waking on that particular device.



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Indicium
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Quote: " I'd suggest running "powercfg lastwake""


Ah thanks man, I'll try that next time it happens. It's so infrequent that I don't get an opportunity to see what causes it.

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DevilLiger
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Posted: 28th Mar 2012 12:41 Edited at: 28th Mar 2012 12:41
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one of my computer i still have that problem of my computer completely shut off like the plug got plugged off or something. it might be that power supply i bought from my brother. it started doing it when i got it.


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Dark Frager
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It's ok now. I've settled for a format. Gonna do it over the holidays this week. Thanks for all the help.

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Posted: 29th Mar 2012 19:49 Edited at: 29th Mar 2012 19:53
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Quote: "It's possibly your mouse or a LAN card. I'd suggest running "powercfg lastwake" in command prompt to see what started your computer up last. You can then use device manager to disable waking on that particular device."


Some motherboards can be set to turn on after loss of power (regardless of the previous computer state). Check the bios.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/ultimate_bios_guide_every_bios_setting_revealed?page=0,2

A Full on setting I believe turns it on no matter what. Setting to "memory" turns it on if the computer was on before.

As for your issue Frager, I'd run a cpu/memory test first. If you burn yourself an ubuntu live cd, before you load up the cd, you'll see an option to do a memory/cpu test. You run it for a few minutes up to a day or two to test. A few minutes in will catch most issues. Hours in will test your components behavior after they get good and hot.

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ernhad
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this happened to me but in my case i my computer had a really bad case of virus on it so it kept on restarting, bad thing though that i had to reformat the whole thing with some of my files which was still in there i was not able to save anymore becasue it kept on restarting very abruptly. my advise don't let it just like that cause eventually it will restart so abruptly you can only do a few clicks before it does.
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