shut down

[Guest]

can anyone give me some ideas about why my system keeps shutting down. It doesn't seem to matter what program I run
I'l be doing whatever and all of the sudden without warning the system reboots. Win XP Home with AMD Athalon prossesor. Any ideas would be great, hardware, software whatever. I was thinking power supply shorting out ??????

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Probably overheating or PSU......

If it starts again immediately, suspect PSU...
If it takes a while before you can start again, suspect a fan failure,
possibly on the CPU, possibly in the PSU.

Is there anything in the Event Viewer? (Control Panel, Admin Tools, Event
Viewer.... )

And when was the last time you ran a full antivirus scan with updated
signatures?

 

[Supertech]

You most likely have the sasser worm that is what it does.
find a friend and get the repair program off the network from Microsoft at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841720. Follow the directions then get
all your patches up to date ..

Regards,

Supertech

can anyone give me some ideas about why my system keeps shutting down. It

doesn't seem to matter what program I run

I'l be doing whatever and all of the sudden without warning the system

reboots. Win XP Home with AMD Athalon prossesor. Any ideas would be great,
hardware, software whatever. I was thinking power supply shorting out ??????