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QUESTION POSED ON: 09 November 2005
I have some virus. When I turn on my computer it goes okay, but then it just resets itself with no warning. I have no time to do anything -- it just goes straight to my main screen, looks like it's coming on, and then resets after about 5 seconds. Any ideas?


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You need to try booting into Safe mode (here's a good reference) and then running your virus/spyware testing tools. Some antivirus programs come with a bootable CD you can run as well. If these don't turn up anything, you should have your hardware looked at. It could be bad memory, a poorly-seated PCI card, etc., causing the reboots.

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