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re: Windows XP shuts down Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:27 pm Posted by John (2 messages posted) I have this problem aswell Just started tonight Ran adaware and spybot and found nothing amiss Hope someone finds a solution to this On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:18 pm, Rafael wrote: >Couple days ago my PC started rebooting for no apparent reason. I get a message >"This system is shutting down, please save all work...... System Shut down" something >like this. It gives me 60 seconds and reboots. I have Windows XP obviously. Perhaps >the network card causing this? but why not before for many months [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:46 pm Posted by Bill Vanover (1 messages posted) This is very strange. I started having the problem myself just yesterday. Trying to figure out the problem as well. It also says something about Remote Procedures Call Service terminated unexpectedly..... then in 60 seconds..... down she goes.... On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:27 pm, John wrote: > >I have this problem aswell >Just started tonight >Ran adaware and spybot and found nothing amiss >Hope someone finds a solution to this > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:53 pm Posted by teej (1 messages posted) It looks liek you all have that new worm(virus)... sorry guys! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 8:05 pm Posted by Rafael (10 messages posted) just great hehe, good that its my girlfriend's PC and not mine. bad part is that now I will have to spend hours on the phone with her instead of chatting on the net while doing other more interesting things :P looks like this weekend I will have some work to do On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:53 pm, teej wrote: > >It looks liek you all have that new worm(virus)... sorry guys! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Monday, October 6, 2003 at 8:22 am Posted by Richard (2 messages posted) Hi, My computer was running Windows XP Professional without a login password. Then last week I tried to start up. It presented me with a login box. NOw I have never set any passwords so, although I thought it was strange, I just hit enter, leaving the password box empty. It logged me in but then immediately said "logging off" and returned me to the login screen. I have had to install a copy of Windows XP Home (borrowed from a friend) to be able to get into the machine. That OS runs fine though I was immediately hit with the virus you mentioned here. I cleared that up tho and one other I found I had. Then I tried to log into the machine using XP Professional and it still presented me with the login box. What could it be?? Anyone heard of a virus that does this, and if so how can I clean it? The Home version I have of XP will expire in 28 days! Much help needed and much thanks given! Richard On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 8:05 pm, Rafael wrote: >just great hehe, good that its my girlfriend's PC and not mine. bad part is that >now I will have to spend hours on the phone with her instead of chatting on the net >while doing other more interesting things :P looks like this weekend I will have >some work to do > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Saturday, October 25, 2003 at 6:37 pm Posted by Tim (3 messages posted) Can you be a bit more specific please. I have had a very similar problem with my XP, but I get no warning messages whatsoever. It just shuts, down and restarts. Norton doesn't find anything wrong so it won't fix anything. What worm virus were you thinking it is? Tim On Tuesday, August 12, 2003 at 7:53 pm, teej wrote: > >It looks liek you all have that new worm(virus)... sorry guys! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 4:11 pm Posted by Tim (3 messages posted) Absolutely nothing. Sometimes when XP restarts, the crash analylis from Windows comes up and indicates that it's my NVIDEA video driver, but that they can't detail the problem. They continue to suggest an updated drive, but that has not helped. I also use Pinnacle Studio video software, and as of last night, I thought that I had it fixed. My Windows Media Player and RealPlayer both started acting up when playing videos. The system would just stop responding to anything. Total system freeze. I reinstalled Pinnacle Studio last night and miraculously both Real Player and WMP started working again. That's when I thought the problem was fixed. I was going along fine watching some home made movies on WMP, but then when I was out to a web site, totally out of Pinnacle and WMP, the XP just shut down again and then restarted, again with no error message. It's really strange. Tim [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 6:42 am Posted by Jeff (4 messages posted) Similar behavior here! My XP Pro computer (Intel 2.8 & 1.5GB RAM) will shut down without any warning and reboot. And when it's after 4 hours of rendering in Pinnacle Studio 8, it's bad, really bad! In the event log there is really nothing that helps me because nothing special is being recording when the shutdown happens. The only thing is when it reboots, 2 errors are logged. The first one refers to %OWC_USBEHCD.DeviceDesc% service failed The second one refers to viaagp system that failed to load. Exploring the issue I've learned a lot more than I really care about WinXP! May be useful to me, but I won't be able to bill it to my client. So, I learned about the event log I found a problem with zone alarm I found a problem with PctSpk I changed the PRC service to just restart itself and not the system (msservices) I disabled the reboot in startup and recovery I cleaned up my processes and services (amazing the stuff that can sneak in!) I checked the temperature of my system (looked in the BIOS and everything is fine but still left the case open for now) I run check memory utility but that seems to be ok I lowered the video resolution (didn't try changing the hw acceleration though) Video drivers are current even though a little old (I have an ATI rage 128 pro, AGP 4X) Well, that's it. It's been going on for a week now since I had a new motherboard and processor installed in my machine. Before with AMD Athlon it would just shutdown and not restart. Any feedback would be most appreciated! On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 4:11 pm, Tim wrote: >Absolutely nothing. Sometimes when XP restarts, the crash analylis from Windows comes >up and indicates that it's my NVIDEA video driver, but that they can't detail the >problem. They continue to suggest an updated drive, but that has not helped. > >I also use Pinnacle Studio video software, and as of last night, I thought that I >had it fixed. My Windows Media Player and RealPlayer both started acting up when >playing videos. The system would just stop responding to anything. Total system freeze. > >I reinstalled Pinnacle Studio last night and miraculously both Real Player and WMP >started working again. > >That's when I thought the problem was fixed. > >I was going along fine watching some home made movies on WMP, but then when I was >out to a web site, totally out of Pinnacle and WMP, the XP just shut down again and >then restarted, again with no error message. > >It's really strange. Tim [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Monday, December 8, 2003 at 9:05 pm Posted by Tim (3 messages posted) I'm sorry to say that I had to give up. It turns out that my motherboard was bad, or something killed it. I built a brand new machine from the ground up. Left my old faithful AMD and got the Intel PentiumIIII and new video card. Full new install of WindowsXP and am now running Norton SystemWorks with full protection. Will be setting up a firewall next. DANG! That was an expensive fix. On Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 6:42 am, Jeff wrote: >Similar behavior here! >My XP Pro computer (Intel 2.8 & 1.5GB RAM) will shut down without any warning and >reboot. And when it's after 4 hours of rendering in Pinnacle Studio 8, it's bad, >really bad! >In the event log there is really nothing that helps me because nothing special is >being recording when the shutdown happens. The only thing is when it reboots, 2 errors >are logged. >The first one refers to %OWC_USBEHCD.DeviceDesc% service failed >The second one refers to viaagp system that failed to load. >Exploring the issue I've learned a lot more than I really care about WinXP! May be >useful to me, but I won't be able to bill it to my client. >So, I learned about the event log >I found a problem with zone alarm >I found a problem with PctSpk >I changed the PRC service to just restart itself and not the system (msservices) >I disabled the reboot in startup and recovery >I cleaned up my processes and services (amazing the stuff that can sneak in!) >I checked the temperature of my system (looked in the BIOS and everything is fine >but still left the case open for now) >I run check memory utility but that seems to be ok >I lowered the video resolution (didn't try changing the hw acceleration though) >Video drivers are current even though a little old (I have an ATI rage 128 pro, AGP >4X) > >Well, that's it. It's been going on for a week now since I had a new motherboard >and processor installed in my machine. Before with AMD Athlon it would just shutdown >and not restart. > >Any feedback would be most appreciated! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 11:10 am Posted by don (1 messages posted) Isn't this from viruses called: blaster, sobig and welchia? On Monday, December 8, 2003 at 9:05 pm, Tim wrote: >I'm sorry to say that I had to give up. It turns out that my motherboard was bad, >or something killed it. I built a brand new machine from the ground up. Left my old >faithful AMD and got the Intel PentiumIIII and new video card. Full new install of >WindowsXP and am now running Norton SystemWorks with full protection. Will be setting >up a firewall next. DANG! That was an expensive fix. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at 10:16 am Posted by Steve (7 messages posted) I have just looked at a friend's Compaq PC with XP Home Edition which shuts down and restarts as described above. I ran the PCCHECK facility looking for possible memory problems but came up with CMOS RAM, failed; Clock Ticking, failed; Alarm, failed; Clock Synchronicity, failed. This is all outside my experience. Is it just saying that the motherboard has an incurable error? On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 11:10 am, don wrote: > >Isn't this from viruses called: > >blaster, sobig and welchia? > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 3:07 am Posted by Martius (2 messages posted) I have the same problem, but after few searches on Google found this site: http://www.modemhelp.net/stinger.shtml . It claims to have the solution, check it out, I'm currently downloading its patch. On Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at 10:16 am, Steve wrote: >I have just looked at a friend's Compaq PC with XP Home Edition which shuts down >and restarts as described above. I ran the PCCHECK facility looking for possible >memory problems but came up with CMOS RAM, failed; Clock Ticking, failed; Alarm, >failed; Clock Synchronicity, failed. >This is all outside my experience. Is it just saying that the motherboard has an >incurable error? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 2:20 pm Posted by Steve (7 messages posted) Tnx Martius. I downloaded Stinger.exe to a floppy here and managed to keep the PC there going long enough in Safe Mode to run it. Stinger found one infection, but ....... XP continues to reboot at rapid intervals so I have to assume a hardware fault. I'm passing the buck on that to the bloke who rebuilt the PC. Tnx & TTFN On Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 3:07 am, Martius wrote: >I have the same problem, but after few searches on Google found this site: http://www.modemhelp.net/stinger.shtml >. It claims to have the solution, check it out, I'm currently downloading its patch. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Windows XP shuts down Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 3:41 pm Posted by Martius (2 messages posted) Forgot to update, I also installed one of Microsoft's patches which was linked in a page I posted before, and the problem was completely fixed. I hope it's not really a hardware problem at yours, try to get that fix. Good luck. On Saturday, January 3, 2004 at 2:20 pm, Steve wrote: >Tnx Martius. I downloaded Stinger.exe to a floppy here and managed to keep the PC >there going long enough in Safe Mode to run it. Stinger found one infection, but >....... XP continues to reboot at rapid intervals so I have to assume a hardware >fault. I'm passing the buck on that to the bloke who rebuilt the PC. >Tnx & TTFN > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum