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| Thread ID: 111455 | 2010-07-28 01:47:00 | Computer booting up then shutting down - cause? and where to find log | Morgenmuffel (187) | Press F1 |
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| 1123020 | 2010-07-28 01:47:00 | Hi all Vista cpu athon 2500+ Computer has been poked for a week, and haven't had time to look at it till now The computer boots up to the desktop everything loads and then about a minute later, it shuts down, as in a message come up "windows is rebooting or shutting down"(can't remember the exact message and am a bit nervous to try it) and it shuts down in an orderly fashion, and then starts to reboot but shuts itself down before it starts the cpu memory test bios thingie andd then it trys to reboot again, I have had a look in the case and there is very little dust, but this does make me think of overheating. This is a dual boot system, and when I tried booting into xp a couple of days ago, it did basically the same thing, although I don't think it tried to reboot. I don't know if it is related but The computer had also been turning itself on at odd times, wake on Lan I would suspect, but the bios hasn't been touched in ages and the problem only started up a fortnight ago, and there have been no new software programs added to the computer Any suggestions would be appreciated Thanks |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1123021 | 2010-07-28 01:57:00 | have you tried it in Safe Mode -- IF so what does it do ? You can try this -- Its going from memory as I dont have a Vista PC working. Click start, type in Performance, look for the Performance and Reliability Monitor, open it, once open on the left, look for Reliability Monitor, click it, you will get a graph, where there has been a problem there should be a X in a red circle, click that and the result will show below, maybe that will show whats happened. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1123022 | 2010-07-28 03:30:00 | As administrator if you right click computer, then Manage. The logs are under event viewer. (You can also find it under Administrative Tools in the start menu) | McRuff (12291) | ||
| 1123023 | 2010-07-28 03:34:00 | absolutly nowt in reliability assume it isn't turned on? Went to event viewer Found this in system logs The process c:\windows\system32\winlogon.exe (my-pc) has initiated power off of my-pc on behalf of user my-pc\me for the following reason: no title for this reason could be found event ID: 1074 Log name : system Level: Information Which doesn't seem to help much edit******************** If i go into details it says no titile for this reason could be found 0x500ff poweroff my-pc/me FF000500 which is possibly of more use |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1123024 | 2010-07-28 03:45:00 | A Google search found this link. www.vistax64.com Seems to suggest a worm was to blame |
McRuff (12291) | ||
| 1123025 | 2010-07-28 04:49:00 | Scan it with something. Disable system restore first. Or remove the hdd put in a working system, then scan it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1123026 | 2010-07-28 06:55:00 | Well when in safemode i created a new account and it has run perfectly wth no issues anyway i ran a scan and it picked up php/shall.zaq.38085 But I can't find any info on this, it was also in a recycle bin on r:\ I always empty my recycle bins before running scans by using ccleaner, so i can't quite work this out as i assumed that would empty the recycle bin on all drives |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1123027 | 2010-07-28 07:07:00 | aha there is something else as well c:/users/me/appdata/roaming/opencandy/registrybooster7-wrapped.exe contains TR/dropper.gen and doing a search, it appears to be relater to uniblue registry boost which looks as dodgy as hell, well at least to me, honesly can't figure out how this got on my machine I know I normally look for reviews on anything before I install it, The only activity I have done recently is remove dozens of unused programs and trials and update software i use, but I haven't added anything that I can think of well apart from firefox 4 beta, but thats pretty unlikely |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1123028 | 2010-07-28 07:17:00 | it was also in a recycle bin on r:\ I always empty my recycle bins before running scans by using ccleaner, so i can't quite work this out as i assumed that would empty the recycle bin on all drives tsk tsk, Ignore that part i misread the report file thingie managed to read 2 lines at one and jumbled them |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 1123029 | 2010-07-28 07:38:00 | Disable system restore, then use ccleaner to remove temp files etc | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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