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Originally Posted by powerteam
Mine did something similar. It started rebooting itself, go to the Windows logo screen like it was loading, then to blue screen, then reboot again. It would never stop the cycle unless I turned it off.
Come to find out, the computer was lacking on RAM and I was killing the hard drive by running so much on the computer. What I was told is that if you max out your computer's RAM, it partition's part of the hard drive to try and use it as RAM. I was doing this alot as I was running shit loads of stuff.
Completely fried the hard drive and couldn't get anything off of it. Learned the hard way. Now I have 3 computers, a VPS (which I run all my system resource hungry programs on), and online storage through my ISP to make sure I don't lose anything again.
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It does that only if windows virtual memory is turned on. By default it's on and set to allow windows to manage the page file, but it can be turned off. If you have a lot of ram then it's useless to have on. If you have like 2gb of ram or something then it's good to have on. Also, it's best to have the pagefile on a 2nd hard drive in your pc and not the main one. That way it won't slow down or put stress on your main boot drive.
I have 8gb of ram so I just turned it off. Not needed.