Spontaneous Shutdown Problem

[Guest]

My computer shuts down in a sudden as i am browsing in Explorer. It closes
off but only the caps lock button is left on. Additionally, i can't turn it
on by pressing on the 'On' button on my cpu. I have turn off the whole power
supply and turn it on again where it will restart automatically. Can anyone
help me to solve this problem? Thanks..

 

[Uncle John]

Edmond

Because the Caps Lock light is still showing your PC has not been turned
off.

The symptoms indicate a Ram fault. Sometimes this fault happens browsing
the web if the pagefile is corrupt or incorrectly set.
Do you mean browsing in Internet Explorer? Reset your Virtual Memory
settings to System managed.
Re boot and check that you do have a pagefile(pagefile.sys) in C: of the
correct size.

 

[Plato]

The symptoms indicate a Ram fault. Sometimes this fault happens browsing
the web if the pagefile is corrupt or incorrectly set.
Do you mean browsing in Internet Explorer? Reset your Virtual Memory
settings to System managed.

Grin. As an aside, the above reminds me of when 98/98SE hit the streets.
As with any new MS OS they become increasingly picky regarding ram, eg
ram that worked perfectly on win95 may not have liked win98. Anyway,
folks used to complain that _everything_ worked on their PC but IE even
with a totally fresh install. ie IE would crash or give errors.

So we'd say boot to safe mode which would run the himem.sys ram tester
and lo and behold, very often it would fail the himem.sys test.

So, for a bit there, MS had a pretty good ram tester that came
preinstalled with Windows, ie IE