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My computer is rebooting every five or ten minutes

Oct 27, 2004 5:18AM PDT

I'm runing windows XP profetional my computer was reboot every five to ten minutes for few hours. I try to check BIOS but it don letme in and now the computer if saying that the hard drive is not there I don't now what to do because I told that was the power suply but I desconet few things that I had but steel doing the same thing not going true windows any more. If someone can help me plese. THANK YOU

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mine does that too
Jul 26, 2005 1:28PM PDT

my ibm does the same thing. i dont know why. i just bought a new computer to replace the other one.

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RE: Where do you live
Jul 26, 2005 2:55PM PDT

Record temps in certin places so might be an overheating issue.

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h8 to say it but
Jul 27, 2005 1:43AM PDT

u mite be getting the horrid BSOD. Do you EVER get a flash of blue, right before the comp restarts? To check for a BSOD, go to the Control panel, system, advanced, and click settings under startup & recovery. Under system failure uncheck Automatically restart.
-Ibrahim