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HERE WE GO....just cruising around on e-bay looking for a tele for back room..left desk to make tea came back damn thing had turned itself off and was rebooting...did thid ok....left desk again for few minutes same thing happened again...PROBLEM...keeps turning off after idling for a few minutes...had this problem some time ago so remembered to look in to the power options....where you can choose idle after so long and turn off after so long the options are not highlghted so they are not accesble anymore...this is just what happened last time ..but now...i can`t remember how to fix it....HELP PLEASE it`s doing my head in...PLEASE REMEMBER>>>IN AS IDIOT SPEAK AS YOU CAN MANAGE.....thanks for your time Moods

Is is switching off or rebooting? If its rebooting it could be blue screening but the new M$ way of dealing with blue screens is to stop them appearing and tell the PC to reboot. You can switch it off and force it to blue screen the "Startup and Recovery" options when you click on the advanced tab of My Computer Properties

Edit- just re-read your post and not sure if you mean that the problem is the PC your using to browse the internet or with the TV your using as a monitor. If its the TV then I`m sorry I have no help I can offer

This item was edited on Monday, 27th October 2008, 13:45

sumtime certain hardware drivers cause this a mobile phone connecter did this to me
check any new hardware additions ie did you just add sumthing a camera, hard disk
or a monitor?? could be a faulty driver goto hardware manager and delete it
and try reinstall or update from product website or your operating system might not fully
support item`s full use ie , older cameras and certain mobile phone leads

try different model or type equipment also check any new software you added such as rippers copiers or anything to do with the dvd sum dvd drives are picky at wat software you use and if you using any interface devices such as mice and keyboards if this is a laptop diconnect such devices and see if it works ok without

finally take a look at the power settings in vista they are found when you right click
the desktop and select personalise select screensaver and and select change power settings click power saver plan and goto change plan settings select never for everything then click on change advanced power settings goto turnoff hard disk and ajust time for both battery and plugged in choose 20 mins to 30 mins for hard disk on plug and 5 mins on batt this is wat it should be now goto sleep select never for that
select low bat level action and choose 10% choose critical bat action and chhose shut down choose 5% for critical battery action this is sufficent

hope these default settings help these have been my settings for 7 years without probs


microsoft is notorios for that sort of thing i fixed i lot of things on my computers and eventually networked them 2 vista and one xp and a printer took 4 years to completely get rid of bugs and stuff



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