Feb032010

How can I prevent random system shutdown in Windows?

Chuck asks:

Hardware: is an IBM Thinkcentre desktop with Windows XP Professional.

Question: System has started to shut down involuntarily and most times reboots, but not always. Why does it do this? How can I prevent it?



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Jim

February 3, 2010

Sounds like an overheating problem….make sure the ports are not blocked,,, and get a can of air and blow it all out…..

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Tom Bush

February 3, 2010

Can you give us any more clues? Anything showing up on the screen?

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Chuck

February 4, 2010

Nothing shows up on the screen, it just shuts down. When it reboots, it often resumes the same session. I cloned a new drive from another similar spare system so now I’ve experienced this with two different drives using the same motherboard.

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ænon1mus

February 4, 2010

It sound a lot like a hardware problem. Likely overheating. Could be the motherboard short circuiting. Do you hear your fan spin up before it turns off?

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Jack

July 30, 2010

Try removing add-ons you have within your browswer such as your google tool bar.