Windows XP Shutting Down ALMOST every minute

[Guest]

Hi,

Windows XP Home Ed.! I turn on the computer normally, after i click my username to enter to the system, after a few minutes the system shutsdown. There is no error message or any symtopms of that worm everyone else seems to have. I don't get the message about shutting down in 60 seconds, nor any other messages, the system just shutsdown. I realize that if I leave the computer on the screen where I can select my username it does not shutdown, it only happens after I log on to the system. I tried typing "shutdown -a" (without the quotes) trying to follow some of the instructions on this site, I also tried going to My Computer, Services, and stopping the computer to shutdown by changing the settings of the RPC. Nothing works. I don't have time to log on to the internet to download any patch or fixes, althought at this point since I don't know the problem, I don't know the solution.

Please help me!

Thanks,

Jana

 

[Guest]

when I said I don't have time to go to the internet, I meant that the system does not allow me to go to the internet because it shuts down way too fast..unless I prevent the system from shutting down, I don't see how I will be able to get the patch.
I even saved it on a memory stick from the website, and tried applying it but, the system shuts down in the middle of the install.

 

[Guest]

when I said I don't have time, I meant to say that the system does not allow me since it shuts down way too fast. I even saved the patch from this website on a memory stick and try applying it from it but I don't have enough time before the system shut down. Unless I prevent the shutting down problem, I don't see how I would be able to apply the patch. Please help me! Thanks

 

[Rookie]

Hey all you guru's out there - can she use the restore to
at least get her computer up long enough to download the
patches she needs?

-----Original Message-----
Hi,

Windows XP Home Ed.! I turn on the computer normally,

after i click my username to enter to the system, after a
few minutes the system shutsdown. There is no error
message or any symtopms of that worm everyone else seems
to have. I don't get the message about shutting down in 60
seconds, nor any other messages, the system just
shutsdown. I realize that if I leave the computer on the
screen where I can select my username it does not
shutdown, it only happens after I log on to the system. I
tried typing "shutdown -a" (without the quotes) trying to
follow some of the instructions on this site, I also tried
going to My Computer, Services, and stopping the computer
to shutdown by changing the settings of the RPC. Nothing
works. I don't have time to log on to the internet to
download any patch or fixes, althought at this point since
I don't know the problem, I don't know the solution.

 

[pskadot]

Windows XP! I turn on the computer normally, after i
click my username to enter to the system, after a few
minutes the system shuts down. There is no error message
or any symtopms. I don't get the message about shutting
down in 60 seconds, nor any other messages, the system
just shuts down.

 

[JCA]

Sounds like you have this worm, http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/sasser.htm.
After you reformate your HD install a firewall.