Windows 98 Keeps Shutting Down

[dennco4]

I have a computer on my network that needs to stay 24/7. We have noticed in the past few days that it has been shutting down sometime durring the night, while no one is here. My question is, is there a program out there that will record when the PC shuts down and possibly why it shut down? It is running Windows 98 SE and there is a second PC next to it that has to stay on as well but it does not shut down. The PC that keeps shutting down is on a battery back up system and the other one is not, If that helps any one out. Any one got any ideas? Thanks for you help in advance.
Dennco4

 

[mpnut]

Try going into the display properties of the PC (right click on the desktop and go to properties). Click on the Screen Saver tab and at the bottom should be power settings and energy saver options. Click on the Power button. See if the Turn off Hard Disk or System Stand-by have a setting next to them. If they do, set them to Never. This should keep it from shutting off.

 

[dennco4]

mpnut;
Tried that and they both are set to never. Any other ideas?
Dennco4

 

[ski]

Did you try bypassing the backup system?

 

[TekTippy4U]

I would suspect the back-up system had something to do with it also......maybe not completely bypassing it,but swapping it out for another maybe..

Also check the BIOS for power settings that don't match the good pc.......
you may be getting a power company switchover in the middle of the night (which will also produce a bad surge).........

lastly, excessive heat may be the culprit here...



TT4U

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[thorswolf]

This sounds oddly familiar. I remember that we had a computer that used to do that all the time. This was caused my McAfee VirusScan (believe it or not), which would be set to check for updates at various times and reboot at those times.

Don't discount software settings such as auto tasks running in the background or settings of programs that run all the time (such as McAfee).

Hope it helps.

 

[TekTippy4U]

If you go here

http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstat...working/nttweakui.asp?&SD=GN&LN=EN-US&gssnb=1

and Download TweakUI and Install it......There's a Tab called "Paranoia" on my version (Mine is on Win98 CD.....SE and ME didn't come with it) that says on the bottom "illegal operations"....and you check the box that says "Log application errors to Faultlog.txt".......which creates a file you can view later to see what modules etc..caused the fault..

Here's an example of my last readout;
Date 10/21/2003 Time 08:30
REALPLAY caused an invalid page fault in
module PNVI3260.DLL at 015f:61251756.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=015f EIP=61251756 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=bff7c79d SS=0167 ESP=02a3fd68 EBP=02a3fd84
ECX=00000001 DS=0167 ESI=01e53fac FS=43bf
EDX=00000000 ES=0167 EDI=02a3fdbc GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 4c 90 08 8b 96 58 04 00 00 8d 45 f8 89 4d f8
Stack dump:
00000000 ffffffff 00000001 01e53fac 01e532f8 bff996df bff741fb 02a3fdb0 61247169 01e50b64 01e53fac 02a3fdac 02a3fdbc 00000001 01e532e8 00000000

TT4U

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