Windows XP Random Shutdown

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Carl Tillotson

A week ago I had a problem with XP with required me to re-
install a fresh install on a newly formatted disk. Now for
some unknown reason I am getting what I call 'random'
shutdowns.

I could be either exploring with IE, or working on a Excel
spreadsheet or Word document when my system just goes into
System Shutdown mode and shuts down.

It is pretty much random, sometimes it happens after a
couple of hours, sometimes it happens within seconds of
booting up.

As you can imagine it is giving me grief, as I have not
idea as to what might be causing it. I have not installed
any software which I did not have on my last install and
never had this problem before now.

I have even set my BIOS settings to minimum specification
to see if this works but it is still coming up.

Any ideas? E-mail address for any e-mail responses is
sonoftill at hotmail dot com

TIA for any assistance!

Carl
 
It could be that your computer has been infected with the Blaster virus. For
more information and how to fix this please see these links:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8b-fe98-493f-ad76-bf673a38b4cf&displaylang=en

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826955

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/blast.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/main.asp


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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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-----Original Message-----
It could be that your computer has been infected with the Blaster virus. For
more information and how to fix this please see these
Click to expand...
links:

Norton AV running, scan has found nothing. Also ran
FIXBLAST to be on safe side, nothing found. I am also NAT
behind a router, no unusual activity showing.

However, when I look in the SECURITY.LOG there are a lot
of 'Failure Audit' messages? Even though I know I have not
actually entered an incorrect password?

Event Type: Failure Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Logon/Logoff
Event ID: 529
Date: 16/01/2004
Time: 13:24:36
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Computer: XP2600
Description:
Logon Failure:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password
User Name: Dad
Domain: XP2600
Logon Type: 2
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: XP2600

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Is this a RED-HERRING?
 
Also spotting this in the system log at the time the PC
shutsdown, suggesting I am loggin off - even though I have
not initiated the log-off??

Event Type: Success Audit
Event Source: Security
Event Category: Logon/Logoff
Event ID: 551
Date: 16/01/2004
Time: 14:19:44
User: XP2600\Dad
Computer: XP2600
Description:
User initiated logoff:
User Name: Dad
Domain: XP2600
Logon ID: (0x0,0x13048)


For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
 
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