Why does my pc just reboot

[gentry_joey]

I have xp pro and just every so often my pc will stop everythig im doin and restart.

[ova_clocka]

sounds like it may be an overheating or power supply problem..got specs?

[ShawnD1]

Are you playing a game when this happens?

Does your motherboard overheat from time to time (it beeps to indicate it is overheating)

Is your system overclocked?

[muno]

To me it sounds like the blaster worm
-M

[ShawnD1]

Oh that reminds me....
Do you have a firewall?

[gentry_joey]

no firewall. It never happened on win98. And no it never done it while i was playing a game. I was just on the desktop and on techimo. I played a game (cc generals) for like 4 hours straight and it never did nuthin. O well i just put win98 back on xp was pissin me off. It shut down like that and when i go online it would go soooo slow because it was downloading/uploading for no reason. I tried to reformat and see wat happens well it still did it so i just put win98 back on.

[watzmann]

i think you have to check for virus.

[gentry_joey]

i reformated the drive and it still did it. Theres no virus.

[jmichna]

Originally posted by gentry_joey
i reformated the drive and it still did it. Theres no virus.

I'm not saying you have a virus as the source of your problem, but be aware that many virii can survive a simple reformat. The only way to be absolutely sure your HD is virus-free is to FDISK and drop all partitions, zero-write the drive, then re-partition and re-format.

Edited to add emphasis (bold text)

[gentry_joey]

thats how i formated it. I deleted the partition and reformated.