My computer restarts randomly

[Fat Tony!]

Completely randomly my computer decides it would be super fun to restart :\. I recently clicked a link that I thought was harmless but it tried to install all sorts of crap and my virus scanner/wirewall went crazy and complained about a overload of viruses which it couldnt clean so went to quarentine so I just thought "bugger it" and deleted them. However that was yesterday I only recently have had problems. Save me!
Oh and before you ask I get no message saying that my computer will restart in 30 seconds or whatever ;(

 

[Jimmeh]

Well, I don't really know bugger all about the subject, but if you XP what happens is when something buggers up, or is about to bugger up - XP restarts your computer to prevent damage. You can turn it off to see what's up - if there was a flicker of a blue screen of something.

 

[Fat Tony!]

Yeah I searched through help and found that. I use windows 2000 and it does the same thing.

I cant work out what the hell is wrong though. There is this mystery file called "mega2.exe" and i cant delete it (in safe mode or normal mode) since it says it is in use .

 

[Fat Tony!]

A summery and small update:

I went onto this link one day and found it to be a porn site and I got spammed with downloads and my virus scanner blocked about 10 of them. I quickly quit but then when i went onto IE ( I usually use Maxthon) it had this different site as home page.
It restarts automatically due to the fact that windows 2000 detects that there is a system failure. Ive disabled it and when it occured I got a message on how to fix it : it tells me to check that all my hardware and software are installed properly.

oh and my home page for internet explorer is some wierd site i didnt ask for.

For some reason ive been on the computer for some time now and there has been no problems it seems that when I do lots of processes at once it goes crazy + I havent closed msn messenger.

 

[ailevation]

What's your system specs?

 

[Fat Tony!]

Item Value
OS Name Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Version 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 Build 2195
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SERVICE
System Manufacturer American Megatrends Inc.
System Model Uknown
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2087 Mhz
BIOS Version Version 1.00
Windows Directory C:\WINNT
Locale United States
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 523,760 KB
Available Physical Memory 335,300 KB
Total Virtual Memory 1,801,708 KB
Available Virtual Memory 1,417,172 KB
Page File Space 1,277,948 KB

 

[Ryjalon5k]

Guys...

If your computer restarts randomly that usually means a problem with the power supply or the RAM. maybe even the harddrive (disk thrashing)
i recommened trying a higher watt power supply or defraging/format the harddrive.

 

[Fat Tony!]

yeah if you read above you'l find I know why it is restarting : due to a system failure, windows 2000 at default automatically restarts your computer.

I disabled this and now I get this message:

Stop:c000021a (fatal system error)
The windows logon process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0x00000080 (0x000000000x00000000)

blah blah blah...

Make sure new hardware / software are properly installed.
If problems continue, disable or remove newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.



This occured when I went into spysweeper and then for some reason it went out of it. So I went back into it and then it went to the error message and then I had to press the reset button .

 

[h4vvok]

sounds like something with the harddrive...then again, it could be a virus