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628971 2008-01-10 01:46:00 like i said my pc keeps restarting every hour, if not every hour then every hour and 30minutes, havent installed anything new except for speedfan do you think that could be the problem? deathracer (11825)
628972 2008-01-10 01:50:00 Does it just restart as in crash, or just restart?

Look in event viewer. If this has XP on it.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
628973 2008-01-10 01:54:00 just restarts in my opinion, i dont know if it crashes cause it happens all of a sudden not freezing that i noticed, where do i find the event viewer? deathracer (11825)
628974 2008-01-10 01:56:00 Control panel -> Admin tools -> Event viewer. Look under system and application for any error entries.

Press the windows key (If the kb has one and Pause).

Go to advanced / bottom option / settings. Untick automatically restart if its ticked.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
628975 2008-01-10 02:11:00 theres a couple of error things on the times my pc restarted, it tells me what to do but still dont understand to much. deathracer (11825)
628976 2008-01-10 02:13:00 And they say what?

Double click on the error entries , highlight the text / ctrl-c and paste them here.
Speedy Gonzales (78)
628977 2008-01-10 02:16:00 this is the latest one -
The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at go.microsoft.com
deathracer (11825)
628978 2008-01-10 02:19:00 Thats a Printer Port - what is your printer USB or the older Parallel port ( big chunky plug).

Any other reports with different problems
wainuitech (129)
628979 2008-01-10 02:20:00 Is this in Vista or XP??

This is what it means in Vista (support.microsoft.com)

I dont think that would restart the computer. What are the other error, or bugcheck entries (Or X entries) in event viewer?
Speedy Gonzales (78)
628980 2008-01-10 02:34:00 just happened again, same error entry came up but now i looked into it and it mentions service control manager as the source and a file named netevent.dll, my printer is usb.
im running on xp
deathracer (11825)
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