Laptop Restarts

[rinoaheartilly]

After five minutes of inactivity, my laptop restarts. It's only happening since I installed eXtra Problems. Has anyone els ehad this problem? I've tried changing the power settings, etc, but nothing's working! I lost my entire computing project because of it, it's really pi$$ing me off now! Has anyone got a solution?

[steve65]

I don't have XP on my laptop so I am not sure how much I can help you but have you completely disabled the power settings on XP? Then I re-enable one thing at a time and see what happens.

[JPicasso]

Seems like with a laptop and Windows XP, you'd
avoid installing any EXTRA problems, seems like
there'd be enough problems as is....

but what exactly is eXtra Problems?

And I'd check and double check the power settings on the
thing as steve suggested.

[rinoaheartilly]

Have done over and over again. When it's restarted, it says something about my graphics device causing an error. I've tried updating the drivers, but it doesn't work.

XP = eXtra Problems - since I've had it on my laptop, everything that can go wrong, has gone wrong, hence the nickname.

[Rick Bull]

Could a power setting the BIOS affect it maybe? Have you checked in there? Actually I seem to remember reading something about XP is more likely to crash if you don't have your laptop plugged in @ the wall socket. Maybe you could try that and see if it eases your problems.

[rinoaheartilly]

It's always plugged in to the wall, becaus emy battery is kaput, and I'm waiting for a new one. I upgraded the bios, when I bought a new hard drive.

[ghost ryder]

im not too sure really piyari, XP sucks on most machines...maybe you could check the drivers for your graphics card? maybe it needs special drivers to work with XP

hope that helped

[ghost ryder]

Originally posted by ghost ryder
im not too sure really piyari, XP sucks on most machines...maybe you could check the drivers for your graphics card? maybe it needs special drivers to work with XP

hope that helped

forget that...just read ur earlier post again....well maybe there are some special XP drivers?? u never know

[rinoaheartilly]

Lol. I've looked everywhere, and I seem to have the most recent update.

Another thing. My screensacer won't run, it just brings up a little blue box att he bottom of the screen Again, only since I installed eXtra Problems

[rinoaheartilly]

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Vanguard-MnC]

what kind of battery app do you have? usually they let you configure when your computer restarts/stands by after how manu minutes.

[rinoaheartilly]

I use the one that's on XP, I've tried changing the amount of time before it restarts/goes on standby, etc, but it's not making a difference!

[JPicasso]

did you install XP on a blank machine? or over top of another OS?

It may be that previous OS had some third-party software that
managed the Off switch for idle time.

Also, try disabling completely any settings to turn off the machine.
If it still clicks off, you might try smashing it with a hammer.
This won't fix the problem, by anymeans, but you might feel better afterward.

[rinoaheartilly]

I installed it over Win 98.

[Aragorn]

I don't know XP very well, but I guess it may have got control over CPU temp. warning system. Even if your BIOS control is passed, check that XP doesn't have any control over CPU temperature, or otherways, it may shut down your computer if he thinks the temperature is too high, at his will.

[rinoaheartilly]

Thanks, I'll have a fiddle with it. I am gonna reformat my hard drie, and install eXtra Problems straight onto it, but I can't do that until the summer holidays. I can't write, so I need to use my laptop in college, and can't afford to have it messed up.

[rinoaheartilly]

It's not doing it so often now. It was set to the "My Pictures" screensaver, and I ha a zip file in there that was freezing the computer. Still restarts now and again though