wyantm06 Posted April 24, 2007 CID Share Posted April 24, 2007 It has Vista on it. It just said something about Windows was shutdown wrong or something. My laptop didn't overheat because it is blowing air out pretty good. Is this a Vista problm or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted April 24, 2007 CID Share Posted April 24, 2007 damn you are paranoid. >_> call the support and ask them lol maybe your battery wasnt all the way in and it slipped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 windows updates maybe, sometimes they restart my pc.... but maybe kamil was right and it was your battery... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 windows updates maybe, sometimes they restart my pc.... but maybe kamil was right and it was your battery... Battery doesn't seem loose. Also a windows update wouldn't say it was shutdown wrong would it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 sometimes it doesnt tell me...but thats in XP media center... but i read some problems for people might be hardware related...but did you try searching for adware, spyware, etc.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 sometimes it doesnt tell me...but thats in XP media center... but i read some problems for people might be hardware related...but did you try searching for adware, spyware, etc.? Yeah, it found 4 things. I then removed them. I don't think it could be that though. I once had like 4,000 different spyware on an other PC I had to remove and it never restarted on it's own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 To be exact it did it during the screen saver. Sigh...It seems like I am the only one who has the most bad luck with electronics. Went through 4 Xbox 360's, 1 HDTV remote, 2 PC HDD's, and that just dents the list. I take care of my stuff more than anyone I know to. My friends even think I take care of my stuff way to good. Must not be good enough if I keep getting shit things. I don't know what to do anymore. All this stuff is just making me depressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saygoodie Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Most likely a driver error. It happened to me when I just installed a program. 4 xbox 360's??? I've been through 1, I'm getting a new one in about a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Most likely a driver error. It happened to me when I just installed a program. 4 xbox 360's??? I've been through 1, I'm getting a new one in about a week. Yeah, first 2 had weird checkered board lines. I was told bad GFX card in it. 3rd one came broke from UPS, and my 4th just died. It won't play Xbox 1 games. Anyways back to my topic/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 maybe update drivers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 maybe update drivers? Who knows. I know I am paranoid ad worried as hell right now. $1,200 and it is doing weird things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Who knows. I know I am paranoid ad worried as hell right now. $1,200 and it is doing weird things. you say it's only rebooting during a screensaver? if so, try a different screensaver, and your power options to make sure it's not set to shut down or hibernate, etc. when inactive... i have xp pro and have never used vista but this is stuff i have had to change in xp so hope it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 you say it's only rebooting during a screensaver? if so, try a different screensaver, and your power options to make sure it's not set to shut down or hibernate, etc. when inactive... i have xp pro and have never used vista but this is stuff i have had to change in xp so hope it works It only rebooted it self once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 my guess, is that it may have went into stanby, and you mistakenly thought it was cut off so you hit the power button. Some machines cut off in standby if you hit the power button instead of hitting a keyboard key. Are you using a third party screen saver, or one included in vista? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 my guess, is that it may have went into stanby, and you mistakenly thought it was cut off so you hit the power button. Some machines cut off in standby if you hit the power button instead of hitting a keyboard key. Are you using a third party screen saver, or one included in vista? No, I didn't even hit the power button. I was watching Gridiron Gang on my PS3. I noticed my laptop went into a screen saver, next time I look over it restarted and said windows might have been shut down incorrectly. Go into safemode, normal mode or whichever you choose. I am using the default screensaver it came with. I been using my laptop now ever since it did it and nothing else happened yet. I guess I can only see where things will go from now, I hope I don't have anymore issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Well....stuff happens lol....I have stuff randomly restart on me before....usually its an indicator of a bad stick of RAM. It will dump everything from the memory and reboot the computer. I would download a memory tester such as memtest86 and let it test your RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Well....stuff happens lol....I have stuff randomly restart on me before....usually its an indicator of a bad stick of RAM. It will dump everything from the memory and reboot the computer. I would download a memory tester such as memtest86 and let it test your RAM. I'd hope it isn't a bad stick of ram. I just bought the laptop brand new this saturday for $1200...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 I don't know I can't get that program to work. I give up. I am at the urge of just returning the laptop. If I had this problem, who knows what else is going to show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Ok, I went into the event viewer and got a critical error at 7:30 pm this is what it says.Maybe it'll help someone tell me what the issue was. Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power Date: 4/24/2007 7:35:38 PM Event ID: 41 Task Category: None Level: Critical Keywords: (2) User: SYSTEM Computer: Mark-PC Description: The last sleep transition was unsuccessful. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, failed, or lost power during the sleep transition. Event Xml: <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331c3b3a-2005-44c2-ac5e-77220c37d6b4}" /> <EventID>41</EventID> <Version>0</Version> <Level>1</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Opcode>0</Opcode> <Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-04-24T23:35:38.724Z" /> <EventRecordID>5372</EventRecordID> <Correlation /> <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" /> <Channel>System</Channel> <Computer>Mark-PC</Computer> <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" /> </System> <EventData> </EventData> </Event> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghostmaster Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Simple...it tried to go into sleep mode and failed.... What does this mean? Who knows....just go into your power options and disable sleep mode. I rarely use sleep mode because I havn't had much luck with it in the past. Hibernation was always better for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted April 25, 2007 Author CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 Simple...it tried to go into sleep mode and failed.... What does this mean? Who knows....just go into your power options and disable sleep mode. I rarely use sleep mode because I havn't had much luck with it in the past. Hibernation was always better for me. Soooo you're saying I should be fine I hope lol. Thanks for the answer! Thank god for event viewer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted April 25, 2007 CID Share Posted April 25, 2007 yeah disable the sleep mode and all should work out without problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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