thanks to everyone for their help!
On 6/21/06, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At around 21/6/06 12:32 pm, Jim Devine wrote:
> does anyone know why a Compaq PC running Windows XP (service pack 2)
> would turn itself off (without permission) if left alone for a few
> hours?
>
Do you see it when it turns itself off? If so, any error messages? If it
is not an orderly shutdown or one with at least an error message, there
is probably some hardware error, typically bad memory, but could be your
hard disk. Your computer probably came with a diagnostics disk... see if
you can find it and run it and it may tell you if your memory or hard
disk have errors.
I've never seen it do it on its own. My thought is that when it's
suppose to hybernate -- or when the hard disk is supposed to be
turned off or the system is supposed to go into stand-by, Windows
instead simply turns off the PC. (After all, it can turn off the PC
when I ask it to.) I'll have to check it out when I get home.
I once saw a fleeting error message, but not this morning when I
discovered that the PC had turned itself off.
> The cute TV ads with the stuffy chubby guy representing the
> PC world and the cool skinny guy representing the Mac world haven't
> moved me...
Not surprising. One of the BoingBoing guys wrote yesterday (and I agree)
that the MS guy just looks like a friendly, lovable geeky suit, while
the Mac guy seems an annoying, smug creep.
I'd bet that it depends on your age. Being over 50, I'd agree with
you. But someone who's (say) 20 might be turned off by the MS guy as
being stuffy and aspire to be like the "cool" Mac guy.
--
Jim Devine / "In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over
communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy." --
Fran Lebowitz
