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S.Lewis
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      11-23-2008, 05:24 PM



"Bill Gross" <bgross@_REMOVE_airmail.net> wrote in message
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> Looking for some clues on running donw spurious reboots of my Dell
> running XP. The peculiar thing is that it doesn't always seem to go
> through the entire boot process. I'll have a something such as e-mail
> open and leave the room for a few moments and when I return the
> Windows log on screen is up. I've been in the room when it happened
> and am faily sure it doesn't got through the entire procrss. I could
> be wrong, because I have seen it do the entire cycle. I just know how
> long it takes to reboot my computer and it seemed like the times I
> observed this the cycle time was much less than a reboot.



Sounds like it might not be rebooting at all - but rather - logging off to
go into standby.

And the option to 'enter password/log on when resuming from standby' is
enabled.

Check your power management settings.


 
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