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chino9656

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Windows reboots with DNS reset.
« on: August 13, 2006, 03:16:27 PM »
Hi.  I tried searching around the net and on here, but couldn't find anything helpful.  Hopefully someone on here will have some insight for me.  I recently moved to a new house where I can't string a cat5 over to the router, so I went out and bought a wireless card.  It's a $20 one, but it works.  Ever since then, this computer will reboot itself.  It used to happen around 11PM or so, but recently I had reset the router in the middle of the day, and now it is rebooting around 2 PM or so.  I have the same card on another computer on another network, and it hasn't had rebooting problems, though for some reason now it doesn't start.  I have a Belkin card on my laptop with little issues.  It was getting bsod every once in a while, with W2000 and XP.  I also have a newer dell with a linksys card that works just fine.  My mom has a Dell laptop that is hardwired in, and never has problems.  Could this be some type of problem with the router? or possibly with my card? It never happened when I ran a wire (before i got the wireless card).  I also had completely formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows (something I like to do every spring) and it still happens.  I am using PC-Cillin 2002, and that's the only program I have start up with the computer, except a bandwidth monitor which i have used for years.  The computer will restart whether I am playing a game, listening to music, surfing, or if it's just sitting there with no programs open or anything.  The brand of the wireless card is called AirNet.
Thanks for your help,
Zach

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Re: Windows reboots with DNS reset.
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2006, 03:23:55 PM »
Can you run that machine for let's say 24 hours or so with the card un-installed ? ?
I doubt it's a piece of hardware re-starting that machine.

But in the meantime go to Control Panel/System/Hardware/Advanced and under Startup and Recovery and uncheck "automatically re-boot on errors"

Re-start after making this change...

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