Random restarts and freezes

[Fallen Aion]

I have a netbook. its a gateway model nt20 with windows xp sp3 installed. i got it for free because it was "broken". when i first used it, nothing seemed to be wrong however, then it decided to reboot it self for no apparent reason. It will also randomly freeze up and the screen will be a random color. Any help?

 

[office politics]

check event viewer for error messages. found in control panel (classic view), admin tools

try running hwmonitor
CPUID - System & hardware benchmark, monitoring, reporting

 

[Fallen Aion]

nothing in event viewer, and nothing but temperature readings with hwmonitor
acer LT20
Thrm 27degreesC
intel atom N270
core #0 51degreesC
St916031 4AS
assembly 30degreesC
air flow 30 degrees C

 

[Peter.Cort]

sounds like it could be a bad component, either the gpu or the motherboard.

also if you have the time/energy try and reinstall xp (if possible).

How old is the netbook?

 

[Fallen Aion]

netbook is from 2005 and i cant reinstall windows, no cd drive... i did put windows in a bootable flash drive to try and reinstall it but i get blue screen error 7b from it so i cant reinstall it... also today i got a blue screen of death i think it was an f4 error.