my compter shuts down for no reason

well my computer shutsdown for no reason..like im in the
middle of checking out a website, or talking to somebody
online, or about to connect to the internet and then the
screen turns black then blue and it says windows has been
shut down to prevent and damages or somthing like that,
and it says to check any newly installed hardware or
software, but i havent installed any, so like i dont know
whats going on...im not sure if its because i dont
connect my scanner when i turn on my computer or because
i dont connect my printer..im not sure, but
whatever..this sux..can sumbody helip meeeeeeeeeeeeee

What XP is trying to tell you is some driver as become on stable and it
needs to shutdown.

Sometimes the blue screen can give you a clue to which driver it maybe.

Thanks

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"originalmaster" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> well my computer shutsdown for no reason..like im in the
> middle of checking out a website, or talking to somebody
> online, or about to connect to the internet and then the
> screen turns black then blue and it says windows has been
> shut down to prevent and damages or somthing like that,
> and it says to check any newly installed hardware or
> software, but i havent installed any, so like i dont know
> whats going on...im not sure if its because i dont
> connect my scanner when i turn on my computer or because
> i dont connect my printer..im not sure, but
> whatever..this sux..can sumbody helip meeeeeeeeeeeeee

Their is always a reason otherwise it would not shut down.
>-----Original Message-----
>well my computer shutsdown for no reason..like im in the
>middle of checking out a website, or talking to somebody
>online, or about to connect to the internet and then the
>screen turns black then blue and it says windows has
been
>shut down to prevent and damages or somthing like that,
>and it says to check any newly installed hardware or
>software, but i havent installed any, so like i dont
know
>whats going on...im not sure if its because i dont
>connect my scanner when i turn on my computer or
because
>i dont connect my printer..im not sure, but
>whatever..this sux..can sumbody helip meeeeeeeeeeeeee
>.
>

Hopefully someone can tell the setting to make XP give the blue screen of death.
That's how I found out what device was giving me troubles. (I had to uninstall
and re-install all of my video drivers, being very careful to make my uninstall
complete (with extra shut-downs and such).

Or go to the system (event) log where all this, previous,
and other important symptoms are recorded.

Howard Brazee wrote:
> Hopefully someone can tell the setting to make XP give the blue
> screen of death. That's how I found out what device was giving
> me troubles. (I had to uninstall and re-install all of my video
> drivers, being very careful to make my uninstall complete (with
> extra shut-downs and such).