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Author Topic: Why does my computer reboot every night? Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2012 02:51 PM                        Our office computer has decided to start rebooting itself daily. It happens at 4:58 AM every day. There are no scheduled tasks or any other things scheduled to make this happen and we've had the same computer for about a year with no issues...WTF? It's a Dell all-in-one running Windows 7. Our computer guy is stumped (which is very rare)!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2012 03:43 PM                     If you don't have any scheduled reboots, check the computer for viruses. There have been one or two viruses which cause the computer to reboot every day without warning. Fail that, it could be a power supply issue or a motherboard/memory failure.  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-25-2012 06:45 PM                     Try setting you computer clock back a couple of hours and see if the reboot occurs at 4:58 real time or computer time.  |  IP: Logged Mike Spaeth Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1129 From: Marietta, GA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-25-2012 09:32 PM                        RTS is the culprit here. Open RTS. Go to Setup - Local Computer. Click the Other tab. Under Restart Computer, uncheck the Enable box.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-25-2012 09:37 PM                        MIKE! Thanks, that was definitely it. I'd been to every other menu in RTS except that one. I dunno how it ever got checked in the first place.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-25-2012 10:31 PM                     quote: Mike Spaeth RTS is the culprit here Yo, Mike...where is this command located..mine is doing the same ... Thx.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-26-2012 01:07 AM                        Look at Mike S's post above, he tells exactly where it is.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-26-2012 02:57 AM                     Okey, (sorry) .. what is "RTS"? A bit ignorant here on this one. Thx  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 10-26-2012 09:23 AM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer what is "RTS"? I assume they're refering to the RTS (Ready Theater Systems?) POS & Ticketing software, cuz I had the same mystery re-booting problem a couple of years ago until I figured it out. There's an option in the "local computer setup" menu that U can set to automatically re-boot your computer at a set time. If you don't have RTS and your computer is re-booting, you've got another problem, as a couple of other people have pointed out.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-27-2012 12:30 AM                     Thx, Jim for the help. Can agree - being the RTS software since it wasn't specified in Mike's first post where it sounded like a regular personal computer was having unwanted boot issues - why I never heard of "RTS" in any home computer.  |  IP: Logged

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