Wtf has gone wrong with my pc now ??

[cat171]

It boots up fine & the background (desktop) comes up etc, then it decides to re-start its self :S

It does it about 3 or 4 times before it actually stays on !!
Why is that ?

Also none of us have changed anything on it, yet we get a microsoft error message saying its recovered from a fatal error

It says that there was a problem with the 'creative task tray' - what its that ??? I've never heard of it before.

I went into the report & it had two files in it (both under my documents, then temp) I looked bit couldn't find them.

I have deleted all temp internet files, cleared out the cookies, cleared the recylcle bin.
Done a disc clean up & de- fragged it.

I'm using xp with internet explorer (not that that matters)

What the hell am I supposed to do now ??:S

Its doing my head in.
I though it might have a virus, but i've run avg & nothing shows up, also done spybot s&d & it was all ok.

Any ideas on this please???

 

[RuFF21]

click on start run type msconfig, go to the start up tab, look for something that says creative.exe or creativetray and uncheck it.

restart and see if you get any success.

would be my suggestion. let me know it if works mate

 

[ollie]

start > run > type 'msconfig' > startup > lookfor somethin to do with "creative tast tray" and untick it, then try.

have you set windows to show hidden files and folders?

 

[ollie]

ruff you sl*g! :rasp:

 

[cat171]

I found (under start up) ctl tray - would that be it ???

 

[ollie]

i only have msn and my anti virus on. just delete most stuff if i was you ;0)

 

[ollie]

clt is somethin for ATI isnt it? catalylst tray?

 

[Chris1.4RT]

Possibly dodgy RAM.

Look inside your pc, if you have two sticks of ram try each one on it's own in turn. If you've only one then it's trickier testing. See if you can borrow one off someone.

I had similar problems on a mates pc and it was the ram causing it.

 

[atomic_bog_roll]

Found this, don't know if it's any help but it could be worth a try.
http://discussions.hardwarecentral.com/showthread.php?p=746918

To stop it rebooting you could try clicking on start>control panel>performance and maint>system then select the advanced tab in the new window, then select the startup and recovery 'settings' tab. Then in the systems failure section uncheck the automatically restart box.

Hope this helps.

 

[David]

also could be a motherboard issue, check the cylinder shape things on it, they're usually quite big. Look to see if the heads on them are flat or not. I get this quite a lot with Dell Machines or not. Otherwise could be 101 things, dodgy ram, or it's shorting out somewhere...maybe even power supply.....