Computers Going To Hell In A Handbasket...

[brentlambert922]

Okay, my computer has been randomly crashing over the course of the last few months. No warning or error. Just, screen tick...and theres my restart screen...sucks. So last night around 3...I was browsing around the web and listening to music and all of a sudden theres a "WINDOWS ALERT", it says my system is shutting down becasue some bull with the lsass.exe file. So it reastarts, twice...which was weird...it got to the last screen I see before login then went straight back to the start which led the computer to the less severe blue screen...the system check. So it system checks, all is well...cool. I login, everything's alright cool...I'm going to bed (it was like 4am). I wake up this morning at about 11, come out, and again my computer has crashed on its own (it was at the login screen) so I'm like ok this is starting to get annoying. So I login, and my icons dont load. So I'm fed up...I started removing programs and files I don't need. I'm gonna transfer important files to the other family computer and reinstall XP.

[WebJoel]

Sounds like a lot of bloat, malware and spyware stuff is at work. Look for and get "ccleaner". It's free, effective. The first time I used it, it removed nearly a half gigabyte of 'crap' that was mostly bad (including several off-shore phone-dialers..).

Do you have/use a firewall? Also good to have. I use "COMODO Firewall Plus". Also free.

[Fang]

lsass.exe could be a worm. Removal tool (http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2004-050114-1706-99)

[dtm32236]

LSASS.exe (http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/lsass.exe.html) is critical to windows operation. It verifies user names and passwords, and should not be removed.

However, several worms and viruses do disguise themselves as lsass.exe, so you may want to run a full virus scan to make sure that this isn't the case.

[TJ111]

Step 1: http://www.ubuntu.com
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit

[dtm32236]

huh?

[Fang]

LSASS.exe (http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/lsass.exe.html) is critical to windows operation. It verifies user names and passwords, and should not be removed.

However, several worms and viruses do disguise themselves as lsass.exe, so you may want to run a full virus scan to make sure that this isn't the case.
The tool only removes infected files

[dtm32236]

nice. maybe that'll fix this problem then.

[TheBearMay]

I've seen a bad power supply cause intermittent reboots too....

[aaron.martinas]

The tool only removes infected files
game. set. match.

[Sid3335]

I've had this before, heres what i found out (after many hours searching)

Go into your bios and look at your cpu temperature, your system will have a cutout temperature which just restarts your computer.

watch the temp and see if it keeps ramping up to the cutoff.

if this is the case it's just that your heatsink isn't correctly cooling your cpu and you may need to either reseat it or just add some thermal compund to make a better seal.

i actually threw away a quality desktop because of this problem previously!!

Its just one option, hope it helps

[Sunny G]

Yes, just make sure you have a good Firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware.
Oh, and do use anything other than Internet Explorer.

Also, get some super compressed air and carefully clean out your computer.
That might help. In fact, can you tell us the computer's stats?
Perhaps that will shed some light.

[EricG1793]

In fact, can you tell us the computer's stats?
Perhaps that will shed some light.

In other words, is your processor WAAAAYY over clocked? :p

It could be power supply.

I've never seen "junk" on the computer cause this, though.... But I'm sure that if you had so much "junk" that you'd realize from remembering bad sites you've been to, or from the computer being slow as my dad's car in the snow (0 MPH :D ). The only reason I put it that way is because it rhymes!!! :cool: