Explanation welcome.

[mike11111]

I am no technocrat so please bear with me.

About 45 mins ago I was perusing AB when my screen suddenly went black. I switched off and restarted, only to get the never before seen message 'Resuming Windows' after a few seconds of which the machine switched itself off. I repeated this 3 times with same effect. I then did a power cycle and tried again, at which point Windows started up with the message 'Hibernating', and the revolving ring going round and round. After 20 minutes I powered down again, a little longer this time, and on restarting managed to get back into the system. I know I have slow internet connection at the moment but this surely cannot be the reason. My laptop is a Compaq, twenty months old, operating with Vista. Can anyone tell me what has been going on ?

[tamborine]

this may help

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314503

[mike11111]

Thanks for that, except I'm on Vista, not XP. Also, my machine died on me when I was in mid-session, for which I can find no explanation. Working at the moment, though I don't know whether to give it 600 mg of Iboprufen, as Sqad would suggest.

[tamborine]

you may need melaware....if it blacks out, keep pressing F8 key to start in safe mode.

http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5756

[mike11111]

Do you mean Malware? I have that, but as a result of visiting some dodgy sites a few months back. Every time I switched on I would get a black screen with the message in big red letters 'Your site is infected'. Malware cleared that, but on this occasion the most toxic site I was looking at was Answerbank!

[tamborine]

are you on Mozilla....reload it over current settings, that usually sorts things for me.

[tamborine]

there's gorgeous music on C4 till 3.30 and will turn in after.....r u on Mozilla Firefox ?

http://mozilla.softla...92YiacCFQZO4Qod01lbeg

[mike11111]

Yes, I am on Firefox. Never thought of that, but I thought that this was a system problem, rather than an internet one. Any way, thanks very much for your helpful and informative advice.

[tamborine]

sometimes its trojan probs. have you sorted it ?

[mike11111]

Not really. My internet is so slow and keeps cutting out (have O2 dongle but no major problems before). I think I'll turn in and run malware tomorrow, see if that fixes it.

[mike11111]

Absolutely bizarre. Have run malware and found one nasty which I have removed. Posted a response to this effect which didn't get through. My dongle is now showing me that I have perfect connection, but for how long? I think that this might be an O2 problem, rather than mine. As I type I notice it's just gone from perfect connection to none. Might be time to change my internet provider. Can't understand why if I can get a good signal on my O2 phone I can't get it on my dongle. This has only happened in the last few days. Oops, back to limited strength now, see how it goes.