HELP!! random restarts are losing me work!!!!

[dragon2309]

Hi, i have a custom built PC and i have done this several times, all have been sucessful but this one. It will be working fine one minute then all of a sudden without me doing anything different to it........ it restarts and consequently loses all unsaved data. (MS Word does it's best with auto recover but when youve got a 200Mb database it kinda stinks when it restarts). Is this a hardware failure, driver conflict, hackers. Any info wud be great!!! My Specs: Pentium4 2.8Ghz (FSB533) Kingston 512Mb DDR400 Abit SG-72 motherboard XFX GeForce FX5200 (128Mb AGP 8x) Western Digital Caviar 80Gb (7200rpm) Sony DVD-ROM Sony CD-RW Generic floppy Antec 500w PSU (dual colour fan 500w) Several LED fans and dual blue neons BT Voyager 1040 PCI wireless adapter (802.11g turbo) Thanks any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

[taylorg05]

You have either got a virus or you have someone controlling your pc with a RAT (Remote Administration Tool) basicly they can play around with your pc and look at your files if you aint got a virus scanner or firewall i suggest you get 1 now!

[adam]

Hi there, from my experience in building PC's usually a switching off problem is often nothing to do with a virus but often a hardware fault (viruses like to tell you they're doing it in my experience, although worth checking your task manager to see what is running.) No, usually a switch off problem is to do with a processor error, is it set to the right FSB in your BIOS? and did you put enough heatsink paste on the processor before fitting the CPU fan? that can often be the problem where the fan is close to the Processor and is overheating it. Let us know how you get on. Adam