sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop

From	R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.hardware
Subject	sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop
Date	2017-02-10 11:34 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<o7kpvv$m2a$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Yesterday, while on my desktop and using the hard drive that has XP, the 
unit suddenly shutdown for no reason, not a normal shut down routine, 
just went off completely, like turning off by power button.  Then, after 
I rebooted, it would freeze after a few minutes were the only way to fix 
was to reboot (ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't do anything).

I have had this desktop for over 5 years and haven't had any issues.  At 
boot up, I can select either XP or Win 7 as each OS is on a separate 
hard drive.  The first thing I decided to check was the C drive that has 
XP on it, so I rebooted into Win 7 and then used scandisk to check for 
and repair any errors overnight.  No shutdowns and Win 7 reported no C 
drive errors this morning.  Right now, I am running Memtest at boot up 
for a few hours to see if maybe I have a memory issue going on (but now 
I'm thinking not since Win 7 was able to run overnight without shut down 
or freezing.... but it is on a separate hard drive... could the XP hard 
drive be doing this even though showing no errors?)

Anyway, any help would be welcome.

Thanks in advance,
R2D4

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sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 11:34 -0500
  Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop "Rodney Pont" <mlist4@infohit.me.uk> - 2017-02-10 17:23 +0000
    Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 12:35 -0500
  Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-10 14:35 -0600
    Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 15:56 -0500
      Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-10 16:19 -0600
        Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 22:07 -0500
          Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-11 00:58 -0600

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