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Thread: Vista shuts down for no reason

  1. #1
    RogueWarrior Guest

    Vista shuts down for no reason

    Please help! I have Windows Ultimate and it is an HTPC (Home Theater PC).
    It has three tuners (HDTV Wonder, AverMedia A180, AverMedia 1500 MCE). It
    has an HIS 2600 Pro video card.

    When watching Vista MCE shows - it will just shutdown - not restart - the PC
    actually turns off. The BIOS is set to start up on a power failure - so it
    starts back up.

    I guess my question is why would my PC just decide to turn off? The CPU is
    a Quad core Q6600 - it is not running hot. The PC is home built and is an
    Intel DP35DP motherboard.

    This has only started recently - this did not happen before. I have no idea
    what is causing it. Please help! I have checked the logs - there is nothing
    - other than a log event saying the PC did not shut down correctly.

    Please help! Thanks

  2. #2
    Carey Frisch [MVP] Guest

    Re: Vista shuts down for no reason

    You probably have either an underrated or defective
    power supply unit.

    --
    Carey Frisch
    Microsoft MVP
    Windows Shell/User

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    "RogueWarrior"wrote:

    Please help! I have Windows Ultimate and it is an HTPC (Home Theater PC).
    It has three tuners (HDTV Wonder, AverMedia A180, AverMedia 1500 MCE). It
    has an HIS 2600 Pro video card.

    When watching Vista MCE shows - it will just shutdown - not restart - the PC
    actually turns off. The BIOS is set to start up on a power failure - so it
    starts back up.

    I guess my question is why would my PC just decide to turn off? The CPU is
    a Quad core Q6600 - it is not running hot. The PC is home built and is an
    Intel DP35DP motherboard.

    This has only started recently - this did not happen before. I have no idea
    what is causing it. Please help! I have checked the logs - there is nothing
    - other than a log event saying the PC did not shut down correctly.

    Please help! Thanks

  3. #3
    RogueWarrior Guest

    Re: Vista shuts down for no reason

    The Power supply is new and running at 500 watts. The machine runs cool and
    happy - the all of a sudden (and almost every hour between 8-11 PM - very
    weird) it shuts down without warning. I hear the CPU fan spin up and then it
    shuts down.

    I have no idea what happens at that exact moment as thee is nothing in the
    logs.

  4. #4
    Peter Foldes Guest

    Re: Vista shuts down for no reason

    A new PSU can be very well defective. Have been know to do that quite often even when running cool. The give away is when the Hard Drive spins up . Spin up of the Hard Drive is the sign when system will shut down.

  5. #5
    John Lee Brown Guest

    Re: Vista shuts down for no reason

    Also between 8-11 pm is a prime time for power usage and can cause what is
    called a brown out (a slight drop in power) this can effect lower quality or
    defective power supplies.

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    I have Vista 64 Business (Norwegian) with the same symptom (restarts like reset has been pressed after a one-second spinup of the CPUfan). Here is the log for all events of this type:

    Feil 20.08.2007 12:32:08 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 11:32:11 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 10:31:28 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 08:44:15 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 07:44:21 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 06:43:59 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 05:43:38 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 04:43:24 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 03:43:03 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 02:42:48 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 01:42:27 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 20.08.2007 00:42:16 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 19.08.2007 23:42:09 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 19.08.2007 22:41:35 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 19.08.2007 21:41:15 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 19.08.2007 20:41:03 EventLog 6008 Ingen
    Feil 19.08.2007 20:27:43 EventLog 6008 Ingen

    As you can see it started two days ago and there is almost exactly one hour between each restart. This makes me think there has to be some process causing this - not HW.

    This is a serious problem for me! Any information is very much appreciated!

    Einar Naess.

  7. #7
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    Temporary solution:
    Use system restore to uninstall the Windows Update patches installed around 15th August. My PC has been stable after doing this last afternoon.

    Einar Naess

  8. #8
    Shreevar Goel Guest

    PC shuts down

    My pc shuts down when i play games on it.

  9. #9
    Shreevar Goel Guest

    PC shuts down

    My pc shuts down when i play games on it.

  10. #10
    Richard G. Harper Guest

    Re: PC shuts down

    That's a message. Heed it.

  11. #11
    BRAIN Guest

    Same Problem

    Hi, I'm having the same problem. Every hour the fan goes wild and... shut down. Workin' on it now, I'll post back.

  12. #12
    Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] Guest

    Re: SAME PROBLEM

    <BRAIN> wrote

  13. #13
    dot.matrix Guest

    Re: Vista shuts down for no reason


    Just curious, does everybody with these same problems have the same
    hardware?
    I also have a Q6600 on a DP35DP MB with Vista32. PSU 600Watt.
    Unfortunatly, my system restore starts october :(
    I don't believe in hardware failure!
    Cheers!



  14. #14
    Robert Sepulveda Guest

    Vista shuts down (3)

    I have a Toshiba laptop, an HP desktop and one I built, all with Vista. They all un-expectedly re-start with a blue warning screen that I don't have time to read but the first line says it must shut down.



  15. #15
    Mike Hall - MVP Guest

    Re: Vista shuts down (3)

    Did they all do it from new (out of the box)?

    Have you installed software on each machine, after which you get the blue
    screen?

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