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My computer repeatedly and quickly gives me a blue screen
As stated in the title, my computer recently has been giving me the blue error screen that Windows normally gives and then shortly after restarts. It says that the computer is being shut down to prevent lost files but instead of actually shutting down it instead restarts. If I leave it at the log-in screen nothing usually happens. It is not until I actually try to log in that I get the screen at a time rate ranging of one minute to five minutes depending on whether I'm running it in normal mode or in Safe Mode.
I tried following the blue scrren (and my best friends who helped me build the machine)'s advice of uninstalling my anti-virus and that accomplished nothing other than me no longer having Avast! anti-virus installed.
The first time it occurred my younger sibling was playing a large Starcraft 2 custom map that after about ten minutes of gameplay starts to eat up alot of processing power because of all the units running around on it. He claims that he ONLY played that game and did not go to any websites (not sure that I believe him) and that when it happened after it restarted he shut it down.
I also keep getting messages stating that the computer was not shut down properly even when I actually stated it up and then shut it down in proper manner shut to see if it would take notice of this action.
I tried scheduling a hard drive scan while in safe mode, and after that was done I restarted the machine. it scanned for about two seconds, then claimed that it was done and proceeded to boot up. I might not have even half of my hard drive used up yet and a decent-speed machine, but there is NO WAY that's normal.
I've owned this machine for less than a year, it was custom-built (I don't remember all the part types as they were purchased and assembled last summer)
I do confess that at times I've visited websites that I probably would have been better off not going to (I'm sure I don't need to elaborate, *Cough cough*), but I've got both firewall and (before I uninstalled it) an Anti-virus program that has a good reputation, and then ones that had bad ratings from previous visitors I avoided.
I tried inquiring as to why this might be to my father, as he's an IT guy for his company, but he gave me a look like I'd just told him I had grown a tail, so I don't think he's even heard of this issue before, and I've had 'fun' inquiring to tech support phone lines in the past and I don't speak Indian or any of the eastern-nation languages. Can you guys/gals help me?