A
Anubis
Hello dear reader(s). My pc is a dual-boot rig, one hard
drive; two partitions with 98SE on the primary and XP Pro
on the extended. I usually leave my pc on, however a
couple of days ago, there were some severe t-storms in my
area so I decided to power down and unplug the ol' girl.
While in XP, I used the shutdown command and XP closed out
just fine and dandy, however at the point that the system
should've shut down, it then rebooted itself. Windows
started back up fine, no errors or lock-ups... I tried it
again, it did it again. 3rd time, after XP closed and at
the point when the system should've powered off, I used
the power supply switch at the rear of the tower to turn
it off. Later, when I turned the system back on, it came
up fine with nothing amiss. I then decided to use system
restore and go back to the latest system checkpoint of two
days earlier, I did this and tried turning it off again
and it shut down normally this time. I'm just really
curious as to what might've caused this. I couldn't find
this issue addressed in Microsoft's help and support web
site - the only shutdown issues I found involved the
system giving an error message or freezing during
shutdown, but nothing about a system that would not shut
down. Has my computer achieved self-awareness? What
legal and civil rights would it then have? But seriously,
if anyone has any insight into this, I'd appreciate it.
Could it be some sort of malicious software? I run Norton
Internet Security 2003 with Norton Antivirus, and I also
scan regularly with the freeware version of Lavasoft's Ad-
Aware, and according to them, my sys hasn't caught any
social diseases.
drive; two partitions with 98SE on the primary and XP Pro
on the extended. I usually leave my pc on, however a
couple of days ago, there were some severe t-storms in my
area so I decided to power down and unplug the ol' girl.
While in XP, I used the shutdown command and XP closed out
just fine and dandy, however at the point that the system
should've shut down, it then rebooted itself. Windows
started back up fine, no errors or lock-ups... I tried it
again, it did it again. 3rd time, after XP closed and at
the point when the system should've powered off, I used
the power supply switch at the rear of the tower to turn
it off. Later, when I turned the system back on, it came
up fine with nothing amiss. I then decided to use system
restore and go back to the latest system checkpoint of two
days earlier, I did this and tried turning it off again
and it shut down normally this time. I'm just really
curious as to what might've caused this. I couldn't find
this issue addressed in Microsoft's help and support web
site - the only shutdown issues I found involved the
system giving an error message or freezing during
shutdown, but nothing about a system that would not shut
down. Has my computer achieved self-awareness? What
legal and civil rights would it then have? But seriously,
if anyone has any insight into this, I'd appreciate it.
Could it be some sort of malicious software? I run Norton
Internet Security 2003 with Norton Antivirus, and I also
scan regularly with the freeware version of Lavasoft's Ad-
Aware, and according to them, my sys hasn't caught any
social diseases.