Topic: System Restart

[geEk]

Well u know theres a option in xp, to restart system. in My Computer > Props > Advanced and so on, this option apperently is for system failure, well i installed new mobo and ram yesterday, and pc has self restart since, i think it might be cuz this option is ticked. If i untick it, and the pc does come to a system failure/error .. will it permently dmg system?

[Simon]

You might want to wait for a proper 'techie', for confirmation, but I don't think it will harm your system.  I think you'll just get an error message, which might be more helpful than it auto restarting, because at least you might get a clue as to what's wrong.  I think you'll find most XP users untick that box, because auto restarting isn't all that helpful when you're trying to locate the cause of a problem.

Oh, and  

[Sandra]

I always untick it on the ones that I do and I havent had a damaged one so far as I know through doing it.
You wont get any error message Simon so you wont know a problem has occurred which would have told XP to restart.
You coud check the error logs periodically and see which errors have been thrown up but there would be a lot on most days, each of which could make it restart if the option was ticked but which in themselves would cause no problem. :doggie: