help!! pc shutting down randomly

[Guest]

my pc keeps shutting down, sometimes with a warning, other times, no warning.
had a blue screen of death and wiped the whole pc and reinstalled the master
disk. i have also taken out my ram as i thought it may b faulty. i hav run a
snapsys driver test and all came bak ok. wots up with it? its driving me
mad!!! can any1 help? thanx in advance if u can kala

 

[Sharon F]

my pc keeps shutting down, sometimes with a warning, other times, no warning.
had a blue screen of death and wiped the whole pc and reinstalled the master
disk. i have also taken out my ram as i thought it may b faulty. i hav run a
snapsys driver test and all came bak ok. wots up with it? its driving me
mad!!! can any1 help? thanx in advance if u can kala

What kind of warning do you get when one appears?

In general, random shutdowns can be due to flakey ram. Have you tested
yours? Windows Memory Tool: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Might check for dust bunnies and clean them up too.

 

[peter]

Since there are a million and one things that can go wrong the specific
error message would help
peter

 

[Guest]

I would save everything to a disk. after that wipe your hard drive. reinstall
everything.

 

[Guest]

What kind of warning do you get when one appears?

In general, random shutdowns can be due to flakey ram. Have you tested
yours? Windows Memory Tool: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Might check for dust bunnies and clean them up too.

 

[Guest]

Since there are a million and one things that can go wrong the specific
error message would help
peter

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ok... originally wen i 1st had the pc shuttin down on me, it was due 2 a browser hijack. i cudnt get rid of it all so thats y i did a complete reinstall. then.... i kept gettin error messages "win32k.sys"an "windows NT5.1BUILD:2600 " amongst othas wen i had dun the reinstall. i did look these up an as far as i cud make out, it was either drivers or my ram. like i said...i tested the drivers with snapsys an all was ok. an i took the ram out 2. now wen my pc shuts down...theres no error warnins at all. its also slowed down so much that its almost goin bakwards. v v v confused here. kala

 

[peter]

When you did that "reinstall" of XP did you format during that
did you also reinstall all of the motherboard drivers??
When you look under Device Manager is everything OK??
Have you done a complete virus scan??
What are your system specs?? other than PackardBell
peter

 

[Guest]

When you did that "reinstall" of XP did you format during that
did you also reinstall all of the motherboard drivers??
When you look under Device Manager is everything OK??
Have you done a complete virus scan??
What are your system specs?? other than PackardBell
peter



the "reinstall"takes it bak 2 how u wud buy it if it were in a shop an brand new. its a master disk that wipes the pc clean an installs it all as if it were new. howeva... bcos i had a faulty ram in wen i did the master disk" i think it may hav been the ram" im not sure if its caused me the problem an wud i need 2 do a complete reinstall again now that the ram is taken out? device r ok btw, an there was nothin that came up under motherboard wen i did a chek on snapsys 4 the drivers. kala

 

[peter]

Ram Taken out completely...........or just replaced with different Ram.
Have you looked in the BIOS to see if all of the Ram is recognized??
asuming you replaced it
Maybe the Ram is not seated properly
If you have no Ram I am surprised the system even starts!!
peter