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In article ,
coinsonline@yahoo.com says...
> Hello,
>
> I have a HP Pentium II 400 Mhz computer running Windows 2000, and
> 128MB Ram, which is connected to a network, but is a client. This
> computer has randomly shut itself down, but all shut down features of
> OS and BIOS have been disabled.
>
> Recently this computer shut it self down while we were working in
> Excel. But it did not do a black screen and reset the computer as I
> would expect a bummed power supply to do. It just dumped the Excel
> program and proceeded to perform a shut down just as if you went to
> CTRL+ALT+DEL and told it to shut down.
>
> Anyways this is a very odd problem and any help would be greatly
> appreciated...Does anyone think a GPF (General Protection Fault) could
> do this, or you would expect to see a failure to display before
> shutting down???

Maybe you have a flaky power switch? On most newer computers, when you
hit the power switch, Win2K will do a fast shutdown. Try hitting your
power button (don't hold it more than a second or so, or you activate the
motherboard's emergency power off) and see if it shuts down in a similar
way. If so, either somebody or something is bumping the button, or it's
very sensitive.

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