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1429109 2016-11-23 02:33:00 My PC occasionally gives me an unwarranted "Restart" cutting me off the midst of my work, either while web-browsing or email-composing. What could be the cause? Appreciate some help.
Thanks
CHIN3927
CHIN3927 (17430)
1429110 2016-11-23 04:30:00 Does it give any warning o just restart immediately?

There are a number of possibilities, you could check event viewer for clues www.dummies.com might point you in the right direction.

First you need to figure out if it's a hardware or software issue, which is difficult with intermittent problems. If it's hardware it's likely something overheating or a poorly performing power supply but really that should trigger a shut down rather than a restart.
If it's software hopefully the event viewer gives you more to go on, booting off a Linux live/install disk/usb drive and using the borowser and E-mail from there is one way to eliminate software issues, if that crashes on you it's probably hardware. You can download any popular distro like Mint or Ubuntu as a test, they all have bootable images with an included Browser and E-mail client. Here's one as an option www.kubuntu.org
dugimodo (138)
1429111 2016-11-23 20:51:00 pressf1.pcworld.co.nz

pressf1.pcworld.co.nz

Take it to a PC tech to be fixed .
It would have been nice if you followed up on the other threads
:-)
1101 (13337)
1429112 2016-11-28 17:45:00 Thanks. Will look into "Even Viewer" for clues as advised.

Chin3927
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