Download the iso that says live cd, the other one is only to install it on your HDD while LIVE CD is for you to run it without touching the Hard Drive (As I mentioned before)

Does it ever restart in any other conditions? I had a similar problem to this about a year back and it turned out that my cpu was dying because my powersupply was underrated. If you have alot of hardware (multiple cd drives, or hard drives, good video card, etc) make sure that you powersupply is providing enough wattage. Checking it sooner than later is better...as I failed to check it, and wound up having to buy a new cpu and motherboard as a result (when the cpu finially went it took the motherboard with it).

Here's a new idea, Have you ever had a blue screen of death? If no, maybe that's what is causing your computer to restart. Why I ask if you've every had one before is because If you have seen one then the next steps I'll list will already be set.
Go to Control Panel
Choose System
Goto the advanced tab, and choose settings under startup and recovery.
Then under system failure uncheck "Automatically restart"

When your computer crashes it displays an error message, if this box is checked off the computer will simply restart rather then displaying the error message. A BSOD is usualy caused by a software hardware conflict, it could e bad drivers pertaining to your network interface which caused it to crash. THere might be a folder C:\WINDOWS\Minidump where dump files from crashes are stored, do a google search on debugging windows dmp files, this should also get you started.

moldboy, everything you say is alright, but in general when windows restarts by himself is because the "blue screen" won't let you in any way continue to run windows, so he decides to restart himself, so it’s possible that the windows of that computer has a problem, and debugging the files inside the minidump is not always the best option. If you ask me I would reinstall all the windows and cut the problem from the root. That way you would be pretty sure the problem is not going to come back.

Ok, I booted up Ubuntu off the cd, configured my network and got it all working fine, i enabled and disabled it a few times, no problems

As for the "Automatically restart" option, it was checked, I unchecked it... Now to see what happens...

***UPDATE***
When establishing a network connection, no restart.
I got a windows stop message (like a BSOD)


I did a search for "http.sys" and found about 7 different files... All in the WINDOWS folder, All the same size...

And here are the 3 errors I got after bootup (I do use XP Pro, but with classic theme)

Well, as I said before, I recommend to you to reinstall Windows, cause it will most likely solve the problem, in my point of view is the easiest and only way to fix it, If you have doubts on how to reinstall Windows ask that maybe I can give you some tips. Good Luck!

I know how to reinstall windows, I bult my pc, but its the fact that I dont want the hastle, having to backup things like, game saves, bookmarks etc... and software configs....
and then having to reinstall all the stuff :|

That's the life
I in general reinstall windows if I use it a not too much every month if I push it too hard, maybe every week... If you have Windows installed in your system for a long time, it's inevitable for you to reinstall, first because it will give you a lot of error messages and second because it will be slower and slower each time you use it and the performance in games will decrease too...
Not just windows, all that runs in it will slow down...

It looks like you are having some problem with your network card. Have you just reinstalled your drivers for your network card? Or have you reinstalled Windows before the whole problem started? It might be the cause of an invalid or corrupted drivers for your network card. Make sure you get the correct and updated drivers.

In your situation, it looks like your computer immediately restarted once the status of your network card changes. If you are sure that it is not the drivers that caused the problem, then it may be the fault from Hamachi since it uses the resources from the network card. The program may edit configurations, such as your network status, IP addresses, share settings etc. Be sure you check the Hamachi options to confirm if it does not change your network settings.

I can suggest you to uninstall Hamachi first, and try to go into the internet. If you are able to surf the internet well, then it must be the fault from Hamachi. Otherwise, it has to be the fault from your network drivers. Reinstall the network drivers if Hamachi is not the cause of the fault.

You may also like to refer to this site for more information about HTTP.SYS
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=820129

This post has been edited by Inspiron: Mar 27 2006, 07:31 AM