over the past few days my pc has been randomly restarting, with no warning (running at normal speed, no software crashes etc) and has been happening more and more often. It doesnt perform a standard restart (eg shuts down progs then windows), it suddenly goes to the black system check screens (first boot screen).

so after a quick google search and from what ive been told by a few friends, there is a restarting virus doing the rounds which alot of people seem to be getting, so i ran avg but it didnt bring anything up, tried adaware, still nothing

so i pulled as many files as i could get off the drive onto my secondary drive, reformatted and installed a fresh copy of xp pro incase it was the virus........ but no it still restarts

i have removed the cpu fan and heat sink, cleaned it along the rest of the board.


also after the reinstall i noticed all the drive letters are jumbled

a - floppy
c - secondary (partition 1)
d - main drvie with os
e - seconday (partition 2)
f - secondary (partition 3)
g - cd

what could be causing this???

Update - just got home from work and tried to boot up. Now I'm just getting blue screen and can't get into windows at all.

Hi stu!

Can you get into windows in safe mode?

Press F8 on bootup

If you can could you follow the BSODs link in my sig and post the results back here, thanks.

Chris

no i cant even get into safe mode

also after trying to boot a few times it seems to hang before the screen activates and the system check takes place??

after a quite a few attempts i managed to boot up in safe mode

i attached the BSOD

thanks in advance

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OK i will pm our tech member who will help you

file attached

thanks again

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