When you make changes to your system settings the operating system will tell you that it needs to reboot for the changes to take affect. If your system has a serious error when starting up it will stop and restart in a new attempt to start up. If it gets stuck in a "loop" you should hit F10 or F12 while the system is in bios. Sometimes it will go there automatically. You will get a start up options page. Select last known good settings. This will make the computer use the System Restore and reload the settings that were good before the last changes were made. This will not destroy any of your saved files. Sometimes a failure to boot and reboot can be caused by faulty memory. If you had recently changed the memory, put it back the way it was before. Unexpected rebooting from the operating system can also be a problem with the memory.
Do you see a blue screen before it reboots?
Verify you have all up-to-date drivers installed on your machine. To verify you have all the correct driver right click my computer ' properties ' device manager in the list there shouldn't be any yellow questions marks if there are then you need to find the drivers for that particular hardware.
If you would like you can turn of automatic reboot on system failure. To do that right click on my computer then to go properties. Click on system settings or advanced system settings another box will pop up click on the advanced tabe then go to start up and recovery section and click settings...Under the system failure section uncheck "Automatically restart".
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The link above is a tutorial on scheduling automatic reboots on Windows XP.
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