Re: Machines rebooted themselves last night?

Search for files or folders created or modified after you fell asleep. It might give some clues. What about Scheduled Tasks? Monthly or weekly tasks? AV auto updates?

John

IWantXPBack wrote:

Peter, as I mentioned...Both machines are laptops. Neither would shut down in a power outage. The Vista machine has dual batteries, with about 6 hours of power. So even if the power had gone out right after I'd fallen asleep and stayed off long enough to deplete the batteries, I would at least see the them recharging when I woke up.

Also, as mentioned, the Mac (which is not a laptop) had not rebooted, so the power-outage theory isn't working.

And yes, normally I save my work constantly, but it was late and I was falling asleep at the keyboard, so I forgot to save before falling out of my chair and onto my bed.

What's bothering me here is that both of my Windows machines restarted themselves last night, but my Mac didn't. This makes me think that some Microsoft-specific thing happened.

Microsoft updates sometimes require a restart, but I have both machines set to notify me before installing updates.

So the question remains...why did my machines restart last night? Did anyone else experience anything like this?

"Peter Foldes" wrote:


Many times during power outages or surges. If you get a power outage for 2 seconds or more it will cause your computer to reboot\start again. And always SAVE your work. Mine is set to do this every 5 minutes .

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"IWantXPBack" <IWantXPBack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4DD86566-722D-4764-A10E-9535551E3224@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Sometime in the last 8 hours my XP Pro machine and Vista Business machine restarted themselves.

They are both laptops, and both have fully charged batteries this morning (and both are set to hibernate if the battery drops to 5%).

I have Windows Updates set to notify me for installation on both machines. But even if they did install the updates themselves, they wouldn't restart without asking me first...I hope.

The other weird thing is that all of my preferences have been reset in Photoshop, which was open when I decided to get some sleep last night. (Unfortunately, I was in the middle of working on a project when I decided to get some sleep. Of course I hadn't saved my progress in some time.)

Yesterday I connected both the Vista and XP machines to my Mac's external HD. I mapped network drives on both machines to this resource. That's the only thing I can think of that's changed on both machines. But the Mac didn't reboot last night, and I can't understand why that should have anything thing to do with this issue. Particularly, why all of my Photoshop prefs would be reset.

Did anyone else experience something like this?




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