Various Topics on Windows Vista

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I'm experiencing unexpected shutdowns of Vista at apparent random times. It
just closes every program and happily turns off and restarts my computer out
of the blue. I haven't been able to make any connection between this and
anything I was doing at the time it happens, in my attempt to understand
what's going on. It has only happened three times so far, two of those times
seem to have started when I attempted to download a file and the third time
it occurred when I started a cmd.exe session.

If anybody has experienced this or similar behaviour in Vista or has any
helpful idea, please respond.

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Ihave a brand new machine and have experienced unexpected (random) reboots too. The best I can tie it down at present is with Windows Movie Maker when attempting to retrieve DV from a camcorder in 7 or 8 attempts each time there has been a reboot after a period of 2 to 5 minutes.

Probably unrelated, I am experiencing random accessing of the floppy (A drive - similar to that which occurs during boot up. So far this accessing has not been ***ociated closely with the rebooting problem other than the frequency of disk access is greater when I am downloading DV.

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I am also experiencing unexpected shutdowns. I have an HP Entertainment
laptop that I purchased in Feb of this year. It will randomly shutdown. It
seems at first it happend mostly when I was streaming music/videos or when I
was ripping a CD, but has occured other times as well. My favorite is when
it happens while my maching is in sleep mode. I took it in and the techs
couldn't find any thing wrong. When it starts to shut down I will hear this
obnoxious c****ing noise and then a blue screen will appear that says that an
unexpected error had occured. From there my machine will restart and then I
will get the "Windows wasn't shutdown properly" screen. After that all is
well for a few more days. Any suggestions? I am very unhappy about the
situation considering how much I paid for this product.

"Peter" wrote:

> I'm experiencing unexpected shutdowns of Vista at apparent random times. It
> just closes every program and happily turns off and restarts my computer out
> of the blue. I haven't been able to make any connection between this and
> anything I was doing at the time it happens, in my attempt to understand
> what's going on. It has only happened three times so far, two of those times
> seem to have started when I attempted to download a file and the third time
> it occurred when I started a cmd.exe session.
>
> If anybody has experienced this or similar behaviour in Vista or has any
> helpful idea, please respond.