Help Please Urgently!!! (Computer keeps rebooting!)

As i was trying to download a football manager game for my phone from this site under the free stuff for your mobile phone thread, my computer shut down half way through downloading, and keeps randomly turning itself on and off has this happened to anyone else and how did you deal with the problem , help is much appreciated thanks

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You'll need to take your phone to a store (Cingular, Verizon, whoever your service provider is) and have them flash the phone's software. I had the same thing happen to me with my LG phone except it was while downloading a ringtone. If you want to try something else first, you could take the battery out for half an hour to let the phone reset, but most likely you'll have to take it in to be looked at.

Thanks mate but its the computer that keeps doing this not the actual mobile phone

Ouch, sorry I should have paid more attention to the post! That's a tough one, if all it was doing is downloading, it shouldn't have messed up your computer to lose power. Were you installing any software or running any maintenance like defragmenter or virus scans? My mother-in-law's computer lost power once while it was installing software, corrupted all the system files, and wouldn't turn on afterward. Hopefully that's not your problem, it took a whole day and a lot of hassle to fix!

Assuming you have Windows XP, you should start hitting F8 as soon as you turn on the comp when you see a BIOS screen. When you get to the advanced startup menu, try starting with "the most recent settings that worked". If that doesn't help, see if it will let you start in safe mode. I'm also going to move this thread to the Computers forum where it belongs... I assumed it was a phone problem, being in the Motorola forum.

Assuming U have windows XP

On your computer click on start / run . in the run box type "msconfig" without the quotes. Click on the launch system restore tab. click on restore my computer to an earlier time radio button and click next. Select a date and time before you did the download.

Ps. you should have posted this in the computer threads

hope this helps, Ringer

The joys of windows.

How to turn off Auto Reboot in XP

Right click on My Computer

Select Properties

Select the Advanced Tab->Startup & Recovery section

Select the Settings button

uncheck "Automatically restart" Apply".

This will give you a blue error screen instead of rebooting when there's an error, so if you do this, and get a blue screen of death, Its a problem with windows itself.

Thanks a lot guys for the feedback i tried the option of unselectng the automatic restart and it hasnt done it as of yet, i will keep you updated, and once again thanks very much

Originally Posted by ringmyrazr

Ps. you should have posted this in the computer threads

The question was double posted, I just merged your reply into the other thread, which I'd already moved to Computers.

Ahh! BSOD!

Don't worry, now instead wondering why it is automatically rebooting, you will know it's slowly dying

Try to do a system restore then turning off automatic reboot... hopefully that will stop it from happening.