Windows XP Random Shutdown

Posted: 01-16-2004, 11:57 AM

Carl Tillotson

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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

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Marc Reynolds [MSFT]

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Re: Windows XP Random Shutdown

Posted: 01-16-2004, 12:18 PM

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/d...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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"Carl Tillotson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:03da01c3dc30$526f1b60$a001280a@phx.gbl...

> 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

Carl Tillotson

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Re: Windows XP Random Shutdown

Posted: 01-16-2004, 12:41 PM

>-----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

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?

Carl Tillotson

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Re: Windows XP Random Shutdown

Posted: 01-16-2004, 01:28 PM

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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