Laptop is just over a year old and has recently began shutting down at random. Running Windows XP Home. No restarts, no windows shut down process, just turning off. No hardware changes.
AVG Anti-Virus runs at start up and updates daily. Firewall in place and behind router. Windows Defender runs in background, I also run Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Spyware Blaster monthly. I booted with Ultimate Boot CD 4.10 and ran the included anti-virus apps and was clean.
I can run in safe mode all day long with no shut down, either in the Admin profile or the main profile. I created a limited profile to see if it could be a setting in the main profile, but same problem happened in new profile.
There are only 8 processes running on start up, per msconfig, and all are known.
I can't even decide if it is a hardware or software problem. I thought hardware, but then why no issue in safe mode? What other tools can I use to find the issue? Anyone had a similar problem? Help!!
2007-05-11
04:55:11
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feeblegoat
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