Computer does shutdown during installation

[antonio__regina]

I am in a University Network. I never had problems to install software
in my WinXP (I have a user account with adm rights), but now I found
with two installations the following serious problem:
1. Start to install
2. All goes OK, at the beginning of the installation. I can chose
custom/standard options, etc.
3. In the middle of the installation (the progress-bar is more than
half way usually, or sometimes just at the beginning), the computer
does a very quick shutdown, without any advice, and without any other
signal of error (blue screen, etc.)
4. The Pc re-starts immediately, but it does not proceed with the boot.
It sops just before the "DMI detection" if I remember correctly.
5. If I switch off and on again everything continues normally without
any warning: "The computer has been closed accidentally....etc.".
6. Touching wood I did not lose directories, etc. (chkdsk done
manually), and no sign of the installation has been left on the pc.

Questions:
a) Apart asking to the IT department, is there a way (a software, for
instance) that I can check if there have been introduced restrictions
in my PC in order to avoid softw. installations?
b) Is there a way to control a log so to see what have caused the
shutdown (DrWatson)?
c) could be some corruptions in the installers (the software I tried to
install were different)?

Any suggestion is welcome. TIA.

 

[Guest]

what is the software you are trying to install? the corruption could be due
to beta's. they may also be attempting to install a boot virus, maybe
accessing your bios cmos or possibly not enough ram or diskspace....

 

[antonio__regina]

Thanks for your answer

what is the software you are trying to install?

They are not betas. One of the two installers, was in fact the same
file (a freeware) that I had already installed in another machine
without any problem at all. I have nominally enough Ram and HD space.
That is why I started to have doubts of different sort (though I could
not exlcude in principle Hardware subtle problems).

 

[Guest]

Yeh, well since it is "freeware" I would refrain from trying to overcome /
defeat the computer defenses, especially on a university networked system.
There are a lot of possibilities as to why you can not install that
particular software now. But if you try to circumvent the problem, it will
only result in a disaster........ "Don't let this be your white whale -- snap
out of it and don't commit yourself with trying to install this freeware..."

 

[antonio__regina]

The freeware is not the culprit. I tried two other installations. Same
result. It should be a way to know what is going on in your own
machine.