Either you had a power spike or else something infected both computers - something that needed root access for itself and thus had to reboot the computers. |
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Ok...My pc has been a real bitch, lately. I'm going to have to check it for viruses and whatnot (whenever I stop procrastinating) but, yesterday, something weird happened. My pc is connected to my mom's pc, which is way on the other side of the house, by a wireless network. I was sitting here using mine, while hers was running, and all of a sudden mine completely shut down on me, out of the blue. As it was coming back on, I heard mom's pc beep. I went to check it out and saw that hers had shut down and reset at the exact moment that mine did. |
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Either you had a power spike or else something infected both computers - something that needed root access for itself and thus had to reboot the computers. |
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Ok, thanks man. And nah, I'm usually all over my antivirus and spyware software, but I just reformatted a little while ago, and haven't been able to locate my Norton CD. It's been so long since I've had to use it, that damn thing could be anywhere. I don't keep anything TOO personal on my pc, though, that I know of. |
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If you are away from Norton, I'd recommend staying away from it. The stuff I PM'd you can all be had legally for free and is in all ways superior to Norton - especially in the overhead department. |
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--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
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99% sure it was a spike in the power |
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Speaking of which - you really should be at least running these through a surge protector. |
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
--Chinese Proverb
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Aye, PCs are more sensitive to the spikes. My power here is horrid with periodic spikes and my PC dies while nothing around even blinks. And those are light spikes. I get the huge ones where all the lights and TVs die too but that goes without saying. |
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I've had two different locations over the years where we were getting all manner of bizarre hardware and software failures. In both cases, (finally) adding an inexpensive UPS cured the problems completely. |
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
--Chinese Proverb
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Thanks, guys. |
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Yeah, I'm leaning towards power spike. You know its not hardware because it happened to both, and it has only happened once so its probably not a virus (on top of that, viruses typically wont cause this type of an issue. Unexpected shutdown falls under the category of faulty hardware if anything.) |
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Almost entirely sure it was a power spike too. |
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Thanks WhiteUnit and Tsen. |
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Just a quick little story that is relevant to your situation... |
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
--Chinese Proverb
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PJ, I'd would seriously get a full electrical test done on your house |
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Thanks for the advice. |
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Last edited by pj; 10-03-2007 at 04:53 PM.
On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
--Chinese Proverb
Raised Jdeadevil
Raised and raised by Eligos
Dream Journal
The Fine Print: Unless otherwise stated, the views expressed are MINE.
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