The PC Fairies

[caz963]

Yes, I have them. Or something similar.

At various times during the last week, I noticed that my PC, which is upstairs in the spare bedroom/office has been on either in the evening, or when I got home from work. Initially, I just thought I'd left it on, or that one of the kids had switched it on or something.

But yesterday morning, I got up - and it was on. I switched it off. When I got home from work, it was on again. And I know nobody had fiddled with it, because the kids had been out all day, and were still out.

I came home today - it was on again, and in the process of turning itself off. Later, I wanted to use it for something, so I put it on, and then when I went back about 20 minutes later, it had obviously gone off and was starting up again. After that, I unplugged it, because it was literally switching itself on and off every few seconds.

So - WTF? Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

I have Kaspersky security on there, which is pretty good, I think. Both drives are fairly full, and apart from MS Office and Media Player, I have VLC, MSN, AIM, some e-book readers and Bit-Comet on there. I used to have a lot more, but I got rid of quite a bit when I had a new drive a while back.

This has started happening very recently, and I've not put any new programmes on for a while, other than the updates that come automatically from Microsoft. (That PC runs XP).

My Dad's going to have a look at it over the weekend, but I thought I'd ask if anyone out there has any ideas or similar experiences?

Comments

[hockeyvaughnfan.livejournal.com]

It's not happened to me yet *touches wood*, though the other day my work pc did just shut itself down and restart for no reason whilst I was using it!!

Anyway, the person I work with has had this problem in work AND at home - her work pc has turned itself on twice recently, and she's had it happen with her machine at home too. We've no idea why its happening I'm afraid!

[flippet.livejournal.com]

My computer was doing that a while back, and we determined it was the power supply freaking out. At first we thought it was hard-drive problems, but then we discovered that the power supply issues were fubar-ing the hard drive.

Get it looked at ASAP, and back up while you can. It could die at any moment.

[caz963.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the power supply option is what my Dad came up with when I spoke to him earlier. I unplugged everything last night, so nothing's going to blow up! Hopefully, replacing the supply will sort it out. I don't have anything on there that I need urgently, thank goodness.