Strange Computer User

[James Arnold]

Hi

I have quite an interesting problem with a student at my workplace. Whenever
he goes to use a comptuer, it either shuts down or goes into standby. This
has happened now for around 2 months, and i have tried everything that i
know. We are running a server 2003 network with 4 servers and 120-130
workstations (including laptops). I have a new macbook pro, running osx and
windows xp. For the ultimate test for this strange shutting down, I tried
him using the macbook pro in osx and it still shutdown. I have tried to
delete the user from the active directory, and even let him use the comptuer
logged in as another student, a staff member, even an administrator. The
problem is so weird, that i have watched him sit at a computer and not touch
it, and it turned off. (he was just watching a video that i had set up for
him). He brought in his laptop from home this morning, and it does the same
thing on that. All computers apart from the macbook pro use windowsxp.

After all my debugging i have come down to a hardware issue with the
student. It is not his uniform, as we have tried him in a change of clothes,
and i tried connecting him using an anti static strap, but the computer
still turned off. It is not a network issue, as it still turns off osx and
his laptop which is not connected to the school network.

This student has been using the computers all year, but it only started
doing this in the last few months. I tried re imaging the workstations to
fix the problem, but that didn't work either.

This problem seems rather weird, and I am unsure what to try next?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks
James

 

[Sanky]

Try some holy water on the workstations to ward off evil spirits!!

Cheers,
Sanky

 

[James Crosswell]

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated..

DNA test him - he's probably an alien giving off a strange
electromagnetic field that is interfering with some of the chips on the
motherboard.