Question
My computer spontaneously reboots. I will be on the Internet or in Word97 or in a game, I hear a click and then it just starts rebooting. I assumed it was a power problem, but I have used other outlets and get same result. I can recreate the bug, without fail, by clicking on Network Neighborhood then clicking on the other computer and then, bam, I am rebooting. There is no pause or anything. This is really messing up my computer and on top of that Microsoft lectures me everytime it happens in scandisk with a "to prevent this problem from occurring, please choose shut down from menu" error. It will never boot fully once this happens, I have to manually restart it, go into safety mode then boot it up again; after that when I click on AOL, I get a "pci something is invalid or busy" and I can't sign on, until I reboot a 3rd time, then it works! please help me out, its too nice of a computer to be smashed with a baseball bat!
sys specs in more detail:
p3 500
v3 3000 16 or 12 megs of ram
microsoft sidewinder ffback joystick
196 mgs of ram
brand name, AZ computers, sorry dont hold it against me :-)
p.s. the cable conecting my computers (100ft coax) is busted, when i use a smaller cable the network does work though. dont know if that will help.
