improper shutdown during thorough scan

[dirkbogarde]

OS: vista 32
1 gig of ram
foxconn motherboard nf4uk8aa
3800 amd processor
asus graphics card

 ran a full scan last( c drive; archive files as well) evening before bed. when i woke up this morning my pc had shutdown without my consent. when i booted up the pc informed me of an improper shutdown. i then ran a custom scan separating my user(my documents) scan from my program and windows etc.. scan. in other words i did two scans and everything worked fine. this has never happened before, what is up? thank you.

[Vlk]

Please send me the most recent file from the \windows\minidump folder.
(My email address is in my profile).

Thanks
Vlk

[dirkbogarde]

how do i find this? i ran a search but it says there isn't one

[Vlk]

So the folder is empty?

[dirkbogarde]

there is no folder

[dirkbogarde]

so that is good or bad?

[Vlk]

It probably means that it was really an uncontrolled, spontaneous reboot. This almost always indicates a hardware problem - usually related to insufficient cooling...

Cheers
Vlk

[gdiloren]

My PC at work also shuts down without warnings at times. I get a serious error warning from Windows Xp at the next reboot and then I am redirected to a microsoft page where they say they don't know yet how to solve the problem but that it's caused by a DRIVER incompatibility problem and if I'm satisfied with the answer. May be it's the same kind of problem...!?

[dirkbogarde]

it makes sense, throough scans take a long time(i've got like 140 gigs of info to process) and use alot of cpu, i guess i'll just do it custom if i want to do thorough. i do have four fully functioning fans though and my heat alarm didn't indicate overclocking. perhaps its a driver issue although vista tells me im running the best possible drivers.

i didn't get a redirect like you did to microsoft this only happens when i use avast and do a thorough scan. if it's standard im fine.

[dirkbogarde]

it turns out there was a power outage... no worries avast works fine

ty

[Lisandro]

it turns out there was a power outage... no worries avast works fine

Thanks for posting. Seems that Vlk's assumptions were right.