Computer Shuts Off By Itself
Apr 13, 2008
Since the last 4-5 days my computer has been shutting down by itself. No warning nothing at all. Just Kaput.I mean windows doesn't show shut down message either.Also I feel it has something to do with my power settings( which are set down to never shut down/hibernate/standby), but I feel that if I leave it idle for some time.. that's when it goes.. if I keep working, it'll stay on.What's more, I think it started after an adobe flash player update( or maybe a windows update, both happened at the same time. Some kinda software distribution service 3.0).. System restore is not working either.I'm running Windows XP home on a compaq 2500 series laptop with P IV 2.4 Gigs processor, 512 mb RAM and 120 GB IDE HDD.
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Nov 10, 2007
I have a Toshiba Satellite computer and when I run it wireless it seems to shut down for no reason at all. I can use it for about a half hour and then it will turn off and when I turn it back on it will shut down about 10-15 min later.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Apr 17, 2007
My computer keeps shutting down after less than a minute and gives some type error message,don't recall right now what it said,am not at the computer that is shutting down.What could be the problem? Seems like is says it is shutting down to protect itself or something.
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Oct 6, 2008
I had a bad virus on my computer and I wanted to boot it into safe mode. So I tried and everytime I tried it wouldn't work. I kept getting this message on a blue screen saying my video driver failed to initialize and it shut down automatically but it would boot up normal if I didn't try to go into safe mode.So I read that you could set your computer to automatically boot into safe mode from msconfig so I went in and set it to boot into safe mode automatically every time I powered up. So I turned off my computer and tried to.No matter what I do, no matter what option I select the blue screen with the error about my video driver comes up and it shuts down automatically.
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Feb 13, 2005
A while ago, I posted a problem about my computer shutting down and throught I had it fixed after scanning/removing spyware and running disk check. But the last few days it's been happening again. It just shuts down while I'm working on something, either surfing the net, working in psp, working in windows movie maker, checking email, etc. Then I can't turn it back on by pushing the button on the tower. When I look in the back of the tower, the green light for the power isn't on, so I have to push the power cord in and out and jiggle it around a bit to get the green light to turn on and the computer to start up. What could be wrong?
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Dec 20, 2005
while i am playing a game or watching a video, my computer tends to either freeze or just completely shut down.
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Jan 11, 2006
I turn on the computer and it starts to load.I see the Windows screen then the computer just shuts down and restarts again.It has done this around 40 times now in 4 days and just wont turn on.Is this some kind of short somewhere in the computer.I also disconnected it from the power source and tried a new one and still the same thing.
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Jan 17, 2008
i had to purchase a new hard drive due to multiple errors on my hard drive. My brand new drive is the same exact model as my old one but when i try to install xp on the new drive i get as far as formatting the drive and the computer shuts off and wont turn back on. I have to unplug it, let it sit for a little but and then plug it back in and it will start up again.
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Aug 18, 2009
I'm starting to get the message 'Preparing to Hibernate' and then the computer shuts down. Using Windows XP on a Compaq Presario with 896 Ram.
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Nov 1, 2008
This system, for whatever reason, is having some weird issues.
1. Applications keep shutting down
2. The computer randomly shuts off
3. Computer screen will go black, and the cursor will turn into a larger cursor like the cursor looks like when it is in safe mode, and I won't even be able to move the cursor; the fans also started kicking in when it did this as if it were starting to work really hard (only did this once).I've scanned for viruses and spyware. It was relatively clean. Then I did a sfc /scannow. Seemed to work for a while, but now it's acting weird again.
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Sep 26, 2010
my computer comes on and appears to be starting up with the windows showing up but then shuts down before starting completely.
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Jan 15, 2006
Recently Ive been having a problem when shutting down windows. I have XP. When I shutdown my computer it goes to the blue screen and says your Computer is Shutting down. Like normal the computer makes a little clicking noise like it does when it usually shuts down but the fans and stuff are still running and it doesn't shut down all the way. The screen still says Windows is shutting down and the light on the computer stops blinking. How can I fix this?
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Jul 7, 2010
This has been an ongoing problem now for about a month. Every so often and usually when I'm playing a game, my computer will abruptly shut off. Because it seemed to happen while playing games, I assumed it was my EVGA GeForce 9800 card that was causing the shutdown. However, last night I was just mindlessly surfing and I had the same issue. When I tried to restart, it took a few times before it 'took' this has happend before in the past when the computer has abruptly crashed as for the GeForce, I've uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled.I've also checked to see if it's the fans, but they all seem to be working fine, no obstructions. Is it possible that with it being summer, the room might be getting too hot and in turn causing the computer to run hotter than usual? I don't keep the air on all the time in that room as it's a window unit and I'm conserving energy.
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Jul 18, 2009
I am trying to install windows xp professional on a partition on my laptop. At random points during the install it shuts down my computer. It usually shuts down at loading Keyboard layout dll thing after it says starting windows. I have re-tried and got to the point of formatting my Partition to NTFS. Why is this problem happening? I have an HP G60 120US laptop currently running windows vista home premium.
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Jul 6, 2006
When I leave my computer on and return to it after 30 minutes or so, instead of a screensaver I find that my computer has shut down and I have to restart. Can I change something to keep computer from shutting down? My OS is WindowsXP SP2.
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Nov 2, 2008
I have WINXP, Service pack 3. On SHUTDOWN I press STANDBY, computer shuts down, same for HIBERNATE. I checked the settings in POWER OPTIONS. No new programs installed recently.
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Sep 3, 2005
Win XP SP2 - When one shuts down computer it automatically saves settings. Is there anyway of saving settings while the computer is still on?
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Aug 2, 2005
The following is repeat of a previous post I put out there. I am still having the same problem and my anti virus, when it does run, says my computer is virus free. Whenever I run McAfee virus scan version 10 my computer completely shuts down at some point during the scan. However if I reboot and run scan a second time it runs fine. I am using Windows XP with all updates installed.
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Jan 23, 2008
my computer suddenly displays a message."entering sleep mode" and restarts. I have my settings in power management in control panel set at never for turn of hard drive etc, etc...so in theory, my pc should never shut down on its own??....also, both IE and firefox from time to time get a message "...has encountered a problem and needs to shut down.." when this happens I send the report to whereever. and restart my browser...I've tried running in safe mode and still get the same problems....more ofter w/IE than firefox
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May 24, 2005
I am having a really irritating problem with my computer. It happens when the computer is left on for awhile, and then suddenly the computer shuts off out of nowhere. After it shuts off, it makes a weird noise(like a high pitch then low pitch), it seems like its coming from the motherboard or something.I can't even turn it off or on using the power button so I have to pull the plug from the back of the tower and restart.
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Oct 9, 2009
When ever I put my flash drive in USB port, my computer shuts down and a blue screen appears, and in that blue screen it says that for protection of computer will be shut down in so and so minute, but when I use the same drive at work I have no problem with the drive neither with computer, Is there anything wrong with my computer?
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Sep 26, 2006
computer now takes half an hour to an hour to reboot. in doing so, it tells me that it does not do the startup and services. it is so slow it is unbelievable. sometimes even being so slow that the words we type take a few seconds to show up on the screen. after working for a time it will invariably hang. or it will shut itself down. in either case we have to reboot, it takes that half an hour to an hour again
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Oct 24, 2005
My granddaughter's computer has Windows XP, and the IE 6.0 shuts down constantly. I thought perhaps it had to do with the service pak updates -- although I see that she has computer set for automatic updates. After installing XP Service Pks, XP Professional, IE shuts down and does NOT ALLOW THE UPDATE to proceed. but sends an error report message notifying IE is shutting down.Why is IE shutting down?
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Oct 31, 2007
Its been a while since i needed to come here but my computer is on the verge of being chucked out the window.
I keep getting crashes, pc shuts down and then its very hard to get the damn thing to boot up again.
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Feb 24, 2009
my IE6 continually shuts down every minute!!! Im using XP home and have included my hijack log below. When it shuts down, I receive the famous "Windows has encountered a problem and needs to close" message. Also, the failed file proccess in the details section of the error box is never the same! I've already run 3 spy & malware programs so I'm pretty sure Im clean.
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Jun 10, 2008
When I turn on my PC it goes to boot up then automatically shuts itself off.
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Apr 6, 2010
PC shuts down using the internet and immediately get PXE E53 - no boot filename received and PXE MOF - Exiting Intel boot agent. This happened a few times and a simple turn off/on solved the problem. Now I cannot get it to reboot at all. I am running a IBM NetVista with XP and Norton. Both XP and Norton have auto update so they should be have all current updates.
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Jun 3, 2006
i recently got my computer back from the repair shop and everything worked ok for awhile then it went completely to hell.sometimes when i start up the computer it shuts down,restarts, or goes to the desktop and says "this computer will shutdown in 30 seconds" or something like that as soon as i get to my desktop then sometimes like right now its just fine until i try to burn a cd or a dvd then it will turn off completely for no reason , ive ran avg, spybot, ad-aware, cw-shredder, housecall but still nothing is found. please help me as soon as u can, this is very frustrating as i have to do my schooling on the computer.
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May 30, 2010
I had a problem with my pc for a while and i can't find any solution on the i-net. My problem is that when i restart my pc, it turns off for about 3-5 seconds then delay 2-3 sec and bios starts, then the os. The question is why it shuts down when i restart my pc. I'm not overclocker, and this problem came recently.
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Jun 12, 2005
I ran the virus scan I ran adware, spybot and cw shredder all show nothing here's a hijack log any help is appreciated. I also can't get the folder common task bar off the desk top. It showed up after an update and I can't get rid of it.
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Jul 11, 2009
i ve been using xp for awhile recently when i turn my pc on for about 10mins and start using the net for bout 8mins or so the internet just shuts off and my network works fine everybody else there net works fine but for some reason my net just turns off after using it for bout 8mins then i restart my pc and works good then i go back thru this cycle that never ends.
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