feeblegoat

Laptop is just over a year old and has recently began shutting down at random. Running Windows XP Home. No restarts, no windows shut down process, just turning off. No hardware changes.

AVG Anti-Virus runs at start up and updates daily. Firewall in place and behind router. Windows Defender runs in background, I also run Spybot, Ad-Aware, and Spyware Blaster monthly. I booted with Ultimate Boot CD 4.10 and ran the included anti-virus apps and was clean.

I can run in safe mode all day long with no shut down, either in the Admin profile or the main profile. I created a limited profile to see if it could be a setting in the main profile, but same problem happened in new profile.

There are only 8 processes running on start up, per msconfig, and all are known.

I can't even decide if it is a hardware or software problem. I thought hardware, but then why no issue in safe mode? What other tools can I use to find the issue? Anyone had a similar problem? Help!!

Who would you start and why?

QB (Pick 1)

P. Manning - Ind (v. Cin)

P. Rivers - SD (v. KC)

RB (Pick 2)

S. Jackson - StL (@ Oak)

J. Addai - Ind (v. Cin)

M. Jones-Drew - Jac (@ Ten)

W. McGahee - Buf (v. Mia)

T. Bell - Den. (@ Ari)

WR (Pick 3)

T.J. Houshmandzadeh - Cin (@ Ind)

P. Burress - NYG (v. Phi)

R. Wayne - Ind (v. Cin)

A. Boldin - Ari (v. Den)

M. Muhammad - Chi (v. TB)