Sudden computer restart? Need urgent help!!!

[Darth Ruinus]

Just today I encountered a problem when my comp runs a screen that says an unspecified error occurs (also something about imminent data dump or something) and restarts. When I log back on, it does the same thing.

Right now I'm on Safe Mode with Networking allowed, so I'm hoping its not a virus? (I know jack shit about computers) Can anyone help me on this? I've tried system restore, but when the comp restarts the screen just turns black and the arrow appears, but it never fully starts up again.

Hopefully this can be fixed, if anyone can help I would really appreciate it.

[Darth Ruinus]

Hit Startup Repairs, and now it seems to be OK. Hopefully it stays this way, and it doesn't restart on me again. At this point I doubt it though, usually it restarted within a minute of starting back up. And now I've been looking at the screen with my fingers crossed for a good 5 minutes now. Everything seems ok.

Still, anyone know how this may have happened and how to avoid it?

[General Zod]

Hit Startup Repairs, and now it seems to be OK. Hopefully it stays this way, and it doesn't restart on me again. At this point I doubt it though, usually it restarted within a minute of starting back up. And now I've been looking at the screen with my fingers crossed for a good 5 minutes now. Everything seems ok.

Still, anyone know how this may have happened and how to avoid it?

Best I can think of with so little info is faulty ram. How old is the machine?

[Dominus Atheos]

Hit Startup Repairs, and now it seems to be OK. Hopefully it stays this way, and it doesn't restart on me again. At this point I doubt it though, usually it restarted within a minute of starting back up. And now I've been looking at the screen with my fingers crossed for a good 5 minutes now. Everything seems ok.

Still, anyone know how this may have happened and how to avoid it?

If Startup Repair fixed it, that means it was a software issue. I'd strongly recommend you back up all of your data, then if it happens again, you can recover the computer back to factory configuration without losing everything.

[Darth Ruinus]

Best I can think of with so little info is faulty ram. How old is the machine?

Yeah, as I said, I'm not well versed in computers. But its this one. It is about a year old now.

Anyways, from what I did understand of the error report was "An unspecified error occured during start up" which didn't tell me anything either. But, doesn't matter much now, the Startup Repair seemes to have fixed it. The error code was 0xb07 if that tells you anything.

If Startup Repair fixed it, that means it was a software issue. I'd strongly recommend you back up all of your data, then if it happens again, you can recover the computer back to factory configuration without losing everything.

Yeah, I have some back ups, but I was just hoping it wouldn't come to that. Luckily, it didn't.

[Dave]

Yeah, I have some back ups, but I was just hoping it wouldn't come to that. Luckily, it didn't.

Just because it didn't, doesn't mean it won't. Back it up anyway.

Back it up, even if it's just a CD of the most critical documents you have on the computer. (for example, I back up my school files, my resume, my old website job files, and a tediously sorted pictures collection just about every time I do a back up (roughly every 3-6 months, although I've been getting lax))

[Braedley]

Get yourself a backup program. I have Linux doing an incremental backup of basically everything except my music and videos on a daily basis, and a full backup every week (assuming I'm booted into Linux during that time, but lately that hasn't happened due to left4dead). These backups are put onto my media drive, which subsequently gets transferred to an external hard-drive every month to 2 months. That is the only purpose of that external drive.