My fiancee has a Dell Inspiron 1525 that came loaded with Windows Vista (32 bit I believe). It's about 3 years old and a few months ago she noticed that it would restart on its own maybe once a week. Since then it's slowly increased in frequency to the point where today she was unable to type a sentence in MS Word without it restarting before she finished.
We booted it in safe mode though and it was fine (at least for the few hours we had it in safe mode)
We've scanned it with the McAfee antivirus software that it came with, with Trend Micro Housecall, Adaware, and Spybot and nothing came up.
We tried running with the wireless card off and also with the battery removed to try to eliminate some hardware possibilities.
I checked as many error logs as I could locate in Vista none of which provided a reason or code that could be researched beyond saying there was an unexpected restart.
Would be grateful for any light you can help shed on this situation as she needs her laptop to finish writing her thesis!
We have it running in normal mode right now as I type and its working but it will undoubtedly restart within a few minutes. It's very unpredicatable!
Thanks!