XP Keeps Shutting Down by itself (and it's not what you think.)

[Ritalin Kid]

My g/f let me know last week her computer kept restarting on it's own and I figured something she was doing was causing the computer to BSOD (in which case the computer restarts instead of BSODing in XP.)

I got in to visit last night and well it's not restarting it's actually looging off and shutting down all by itself.. it shows the log off screen and the "Windows is Shutting Down" screen and then turns the computer off all by itself..

Now her computer is dual booting Windows ME and so far no probs in Windows ME been running for 45 mins and no shutdown.. it normally takes about 10-15 mins before Windows XP shuts itself down.. and BTW there are no error screens popping up telling her it's about to shut down due to an error just outta no where it shuts down..

Weird... anyone have an idea.. could this be a virus?

Here her setup:

Codegen Mid Tower w/300 Watt ATX Codegen PSU
ECS K7S5A
256 Crucial DDR
60 Gig WD 7200 Hard Drive
GF2 MX 400 32
Lite On 24x10x40 Burner
Lite On 16x DVD ROM
Using Onboard sound
also using onboard NIC
Optical Logitech mouse and Logitech Multimedia Keyboard

[AzKidd69]

a few things vould be causing it.. if you run gpedit.msc there is something about unable to perform security audits will automatically shutdown...
another thing.. does this happen when idle, in use or both?

[DutchMaster]

Which graphic drivers are used for the GF2?

[RayH]

I'm having the same problem with a dual boot, Windows 98 SE and XP Pro. I'm beginning to think the problem may be that I am using FAT 32 for both OS's, so they may share files on E:\. I think it's giving the computer a case of Alzheimer's, as it may be looking for .exe on the wrong drive. It's not as bad as putting them on top of each other in the same partition. But this may be its twin.

I'll check back and let you know if putting XP on an NTFS partition helps. I'm running Intel.

[Ritalin Kid]

does this happen when idle, in use or both?

Now that you mention it.. last night it did it after being idle for a few mins.. tried system restore but no luck..

Which graphic drivers are used for the GF2?

That's the first thing I thought to.. We put the 23.11 on here and ever since we've had nothing but trouble with XP tryin to play RTCW.. BSOD's everytime cause I have the option to restart when it crashes disabled.. fixin to replace her Vid card cause it's a cheap MX200 I/O Magic she got at Office Max.

[DutchMaster]

People (me too) seem to have allot of problems with the nvidia 23.11 driver. You need to downgrade to the 21.83 driver. Or maybe the new driver (www.nvidia.com) has that problem solved, don't know

Download 21.83:
http://www.killersinc.com/files/driv...inXP_21.83.exe

[dragonb]

similar problems. Check the event viewer. I finally found that it was ZA doing it.
(event viewer is under administrative tools, in control panel)
dragonb

[Ritalin Kid]

Ok this is weird the event viewrer points toward the UPS...

The description for Event ID ( 1300 ) in Source ( UPS ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: System shutdown.

No idea what this means but I uninstalled the software that came with the UPS cause there wasn't a Windows XP version so when I orginally got it I installed the Win 2K.. that could be the prob.. hopefully this should stop any probs.. and I got all kinds of Memory address errors when I uninstalled the PowerChute proggie for the UPS..

[AzKidd69]

LOL.. sounds like the UPS program was conflicting with the UPS service in XP and forcing a shut down...

[Ritalin Kid]

Well didn't know this but there is an XP update for computer failing when connected to UPS..

When all else fail double check Windows Update.. one thing I must comment on is that Microsoft has been better about providing particular updates for its users..