system reboots itself randomly

[Beowoulf]

I have an OLD HP Pavilion 8860 with Windows ME still, it's been a good system, but now it's shutting itself down and re-booting quite often! I can't burn an ISO image in Roxio, sometimes can't even open IE6! I swept the system with virus scans, but they show nothing! I would like to keep this system going, but I no longerhave the HP recovery disks. HELP ME PLEASE???
HP Pavilion 8860
VIA AC'97 Audio (WAVE)
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX100/200
Intel 82815 Graphics Adapter
Phoenix Technologies
ASUS A7V-VM
256Meg RAM

[bookworm]

Originally Posted by Beowoulf

I have an OLD HP Pavilion 8860 with Windows ME still, it's been a good system, but now it's shutting itself down and re-booting quite often! I can't burn an ISO image in Roxio, sometimes can't even open IE6! I swept the system with virus scans, but they show nothing! I would like to keep this system going, but I no longerhave the HP recovery disks. HELP ME PLEASE???
HP Pavilion 8860
VIA AC'97 Audio (WAVE)
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX100/200
Intel 82815 Graphics Adapter
Phoenix Technologies
ASUS A7V-VM
256Meg RAM

Can you get belarc http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

copy and paste this section, yours will be slightly different

Operating System System Model
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Sony Corporation VGC-RB53 R5006582
System Serial Number: 28223834-3012902
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Intel Corporation D915GRO AAC89748-203
Serial Number: BQRO53100995
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. EV91510A.04T.0068.2005.0914.2111 09/14/2005
Drives Memory Modules c,d
273.62 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
18.68 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

I think I have the motherboard but need to check whether it is the Tahita or not.

Cheers

copy and paste the begining of the report

[alwaysonline]

reboot and while it 1st boots, press the F10 tab for recovery.

if it is not there,then you have to have that CD.