I'm running Windows XP Home (SP2). I built this computer a few years back, 3 GHz P4 processor, 2 GB of RAM, ATi Radeon 9600. This computer is DMZed and never shut down because I have all types of servers and such (telnet, ftp, VNC, etc). I run Zone Alarm, AVG Free (update and scan every night), Spybot (update and scan every night).
I'm thinking the random restarts is XP crashing hard. Right now I have it configured to write a minidump and restart, but I have no idea on how to analyze minidumps or complete dumps of the memory or kernel. I've looked through the Event Viewer and I saw nothing that stands out too much.
It actually just restarted (gotta love Firefox's recovery), I believe these restarts may be due to Bittorrent. I have version 6 of the official Bittorrent client (and I use it legally, currently downloading mythbuntu and gOS).
Please help. I'll be going out of town Wednesday, so my computer has to be back to the "bounce back up if it dies" settings by then, so I can configure it to actually see the blue screen if that would help. Are minidumps fine, or should I make memory or kernel dumps?
I'm thinking the random restarts is XP crashing hard. Right now I have it configured to write a minidump and restart, but I have no idea on how to analyze minidumps or complete dumps of the memory or kernel. I've looked through the Event Viewer and I saw nothing that stands out too much.
It actually just restarted (gotta love Firefox's recovery), I believe these restarts may be due to Bittorrent. I have version 6 of the official Bittorrent client (and I use it legally, currently downloading mythbuntu and gOS).
Please help. I'll be going out of town Wednesday, so my computer has to be back to the "bounce back up if it dies" settings by then, so I can configure it to actually see the blue screen if that would help. Are minidumps fine, or should I make memory or kernel dumps?