Vista restarts itself...

I am running Vista 64bit Home Premium with 3gigs or ddr ram, and an
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+, with a 70gig primary IDE drive and a
150gig secondary SATA drive. For some reason, it seems as though when
it goes into sleep mode, it decided to restart instead. No errors or
anything. And I checked the system log and didn't see anything fishy.
Any ideas? TIA!!!!

I's probably that Vista's installing updates to your computer. If you don't
like it go to Control Panel > Windows Update > Change settings > Click
'Download updates but let me choose whether to install them'.

"n00k" <> wrote in message
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>I am running Vista 64bit Home Premium with 3gigs or ddr ram, and an
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+, with a 70gig primary IDE drive and a
> 150gig secondary SATA drive. For some reason, it seems as though when
> it goes into sleep mode, it decided to restart instead. No errors or
> anything. And I checked the system log and didn't see anything fishy.
> Any ideas? TIA!!!!

You might check your BIOS to see if wake on LAN is set active.

"n00k" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I am running Vista 64bit Home Premium with 3gigs or ddr ram, and an
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+, with a 70gig primary IDE drive and a
> 150gig secondary SATA drive. For some reason, it seems as though when
> it goes into sleep mode, it decided to restart instead. No errors or
> anything. And I checked the system log and didn't see anything fishy.
> Any ideas? TIA!!!!

n00k;443633 Wrote:
> I am running Vista 64bit Home Premium with 3gigs or ddr ram, and an
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+, with a 70gig primary IDE drive and a
> 150gig secondary SATA drive. For some reason, it seems as though when
> it goes into sleep mode, it decided to restart instead. No errors or
> anything. And I checked the system log and didn't see anything fishy.
> Any ideas? TIA!!!!

Hi n00k,

You might look at the steps in this tutorial to see if it will help you
troubleshoot your sleep mode problem.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/63...-problems.html

Shawn


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Should be something in the event log for shutdown/start .. look for things
which happen before htat (e.g., Windows Update)




"n00k" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I am running Vista 64bit Home Premium with 3gigs or ddr ram, and an
> AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+, with a 70gig primary IDE drive and a
> 150gig secondary SATA drive. For some reason, it seems as though when
> it goes into sleep mode, it decided to restart instead. No errors or
> anything. And I checked the system log and didn't see anything fishy.
> Any ideas? TIA!!!!

Other have also referenced the BIOS, is there a not so complicated process to
correct? thanks

"John Barnes" wrote:

> You might check your BIOS to see if wake on LAN is set active.
>
> "n00k" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >I am running Vista 64bit Home Premium with 3gigs or ddr ram, and an
> > AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+, with a 70gig primary IDE drive and a
> > 150gig secondary SATA drive. For some reason, it seems as though when
> > it goes into sleep mode, it decided to restart instead. No errors or
> > anything. And I checked the system log and didn't see anything fishy.
> > Any ideas? TIA!!!!
>
>

Not if it is BIOS caused. One possibility is you have a scheduled activity
that triggers an active BIOS function, so you might check to see if you can
stop it within Windows.

"Jeff Houck" <Jeff > wrote in message
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> Other have also referenced the BIOS, is there a not so complicated process
> to
> correct? thanks
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>
>> You might check your BIOS to see if wake on LAN is set active.
>>
>> "n00k" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> >I am running Vista 64bit Home Premium with 3gigs or ddr ram, and an
>> > AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+, with a 70gig primary IDE drive and a
>> > 150gig secondary SATA drive. For some reason, it seems as though when
>> > it goes into sleep mode, it decided to restart instead. No errors or
>> > anything. And I checked the system log and didn't see anything fishy.
>> > Any ideas? TIA!!!!
>>
>>