When I change the Screen Saver the PC reboots!

[Son of a gun]

If I do something simple on my new PC like change the screensaver it reboots. I don't even have time to click on apply or anything. It's a new build with Win Xp SP2. AMD 2400 CPU and 512mb ram. Anyone have any ideas?

[imroberts]

Some hardware problem - CPU or memory at a guess

[Bitkari]

actually i've seen a friends pc with a similar problem - they were unable to change screensaver as the control panel just closed itself when they tried.

it turned out that they had a trojan on their computer that was borking things up.

you could try giving your machine a good scan to see if that helps?

[autopilot]

Is it the same screen saver each time? Could be a currupt file maybe or graphics driver issue maybe?