What are the causes of my computer just "restart" itself?

Windows xp pro... my computer restarts during use.  It happens every time, it restarts just having to connect to, no timeout just instantly turns off then restore it.  Any suggestions?

I hope I can contribute a little more to the idea of ferguson thomas:

XP automatically restart on system failure, so set up your system so it doesn't do this, so if you get a blue screen of death (BSOD) you can see the error message.

Configure your system does not automatically restart on system failure and to create a crash dump file when it crash.

Right click my computer, properties, advanced, startup and recovery settings.

In the system failure section:

Put a check mark in the box "write an event to the system log.
Put a check mark in the box "send an administrative alert.
Uncheck 'automatically restart '.

In the Write debugging information section select:

Partial dump (64 KB)

Set the directory small dumpster:

%SystemRoot%\Minidump

Click OK, OK to save the settings.

Restart your computer and wait for the next reboot/crash.

If you can only start in Mode safe and see a BSOD, in the menu options of Safe Mode.
Choose the option that says XP do not automatically restart on system failure:

Disable the automatic restart in the event of system failure

Then you can see the BSOD when it happens again.

Here's a BSOD example showing information you provide:

http://TechRepublic.com.com/i/tr/downloads/images/bsod_a.jpg

Send for the nose and the Red arrows (3 to 4 lines total).

Send all * line STOP message since there are clues in the 4 parameters.

Ignore the boring text unless it seems important to you.  We know what a BSOD looks like, we need to know what your BSOD looks like.

If there is a name of the file listed in the STOP message, don't forget to include that too.

P.S. If your system is overheating, you will not see a BSOD and there will be no trace of these kinds of failures in the log files.  If you leave your system power turned off for a while so it can cool off, it "last longer" before it reboots?

Make sure that your system has adequate ventilation and doesn't look like these examples:

http://www.theregister.co.UK/2009/11/13/ventblockers/print.html

There's more humorous links on the bottom of this page...

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