[jasonN]

Hey guys,

I'm having a weird problem with my computer. Every now and then I will go to the shut down menu and select shut down to turn off my computer. But sometimes it restarts itself instead of shutting down! Then it will go through the normal routine of restarting and then as windows starts, it goes to a screen saying that my 'disk needs to be checked for consistency' and proceeds to scan it.

This almost always happens when I use large PSD files aswell... Is it something to do with my RAM?

Anyway, my system specs are:

Athon 1700 XP+
256 DDR RAM
40gig HD (20gig free)
Asus A7V266-E (KT266A ddr motherboard)
Running windows 2000
Geforce 3ti200

Got any ideas??

[B0b]

go HERE and grab AD AWARE. scan ur computer, remove all files it found..

alot of problems ppl have is to do with the installation of spyware from visiting some sites..

if your problems aren't solved by this then i'd reccommend a total format and re-install of the OS

[Dr. Bang]

could be something with your Bios, flash it or update it orcould be something wrong with your CPU, its too hot. Its getting hot in here, so take of all your clothes, a little bit of UH UH, yeah, and a little bit of UH UH. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
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[EviLToYLeT]

I don't think there's anything wrong with your bios as dr. bang pointed out. I'm thinking that what happens is your computer doesn't even get to shut down, it hangs and restarts and if your computer isn't shut down properly you get the scandisk checking.

hrmmm... i'm guessing that you should scan your computer for viruses and the sort...

don't know what else there can be,maybe a corrupted file somewhere.
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[IDrawGirls]

Yes the "will go to the shut down menu" part seems strange to me. I'm having kinda similar problems.
Sometimes there's a driver mentioned and a "not less or equal" dunno what message. That happens when the computer wasn't shut down for too long.
When it happens more frequently I know that one partition of my harddisk is almost full. Deleting stuff always helps then.
So it might be the space Photoshop needs!?
There's no blue screen error message btw?

A MSI Board with Via KT266 chipset caused trouble when I had no name DDR RAM ... But I think that was different.
Sometimes the computer wouldn't even boot after it crashed. And I don't mean "didn't boot DIRECTLY after it crashed". New RAM did help.

[jasonN]

Thanks guys, I tried B0bs method and got that software. I had a lot of unknown files on my disk that I got rid of but it still didn't seem to work.

I'm going to try to update the bios on my computer. Also I think the CPU overheating could be the problem. At times it gets REALLY hot in the whole computer room. Like significantly hotter when its been running for a few hours. This is especially true since its been summer here in Australia.

EviLToYLeT: I do have a virus scanner that is up to date, it is running in the background all the time so that should pick up any viruses right? My computer doesn't appear to hang at all. It almost seems as if the shutdown selection triggers the restart function.

Signature: My computer doesn't automatically go to the shut down menu. That's not the problem. It's when I want to shut down the computer and I select it specifically, that it decides to restart itself.

As for the space photoshop needs. I have 20 gigabytes free so I'm sure that should be enough. No bluescreen messages either. I;m not sure what my ram is, but I don't have trouble booting up.

I also have a strange problem with my bios. Sometimes I turn on my computer and it will go to the bios screen stating that my cpu clock speed is set wrong.
So I try to set it but it only has two options of 1200mhz or 1466mhz.
I'm not sure which is correct as I have an athlon 1700 XP + but I read somewhere that the 1700 in the name isn't indicative of the actual clock speed?

Can anybody help!!?
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[elam]

Or it could be that your using Windows and Windows is a giant piece of shit and trying to answer questions like this is like trying to answer the meaning of life. Who knows?

I wouldn't worry about it. Try defragging your hard drive if you haven't already.

[lalPOOO]

sounds like it could have something to do with disk cacheing, due to your large psd explaination. I've had some large problems with it latly, but they're not that same as yours (lucky for you ) anyways, you could try turning it off temporarily to see if it fixes the problem.

edit: I also had a problem like that when I was running ME, but it didn't do the scanning thing. never solved it.