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Thanks for the reply. I'm scared to run a diskchk. The last time I tried that several months ago after one of the reboots, it corrupted my OS boot files because it rebooted while in the middle of the diskchk. Then my PC could no longer boot into Windows. It was a nightmare trying to recover my OS at that point. Putting in the Windows DVD and running "repair computer" failed to repair startup, and the only last thing that worked was trying a system restore from the Windows DVD - thankfully I had a restore point currently, otherwise the OS would have been gone. So now I'm terrified of running another diskchk because I never know when the next reboot will be.
It went into another round of reboots around 36 hours ago, but none since. Once it starts happening it doe sit multiple times, and even in the bios or safe mode, and it's even happened during memory tests off the CD.
I'll try the Driver update utility and double-check for loose wires again. I did run the diskchk several months ago successfully once, after the first series of reboots, and things did not improve. I thought I saved the results but I can't seem to find them now - if I can locate them later I will post what it said after the scan. I would like to run diskchk again because it's rebooted a ton of times since my last scan but I'm just scared of the OS getting corrupted again if it reboots while scanning. I haven't run the scannow command though - but again I'm scared I'll get a reboot during scanning and corrupt the boot files again.
The fact that sometimes it happens exactly as I click a link or video in a browser, and other times it will happen in idle or even in bios or safe mode or running a CD memory check, makes me think it's likely not a loose wire since the timing of some of the reboots are precisely when I click something - it must be related somehow. I never once get a BSOD - always a sudden reboot.
I reverted my bios to stock settings the other day and kept them there, though that hasn't improved things.
Last edited by tgfyhre; 10 Jul 2014 at 12:53.