just experienced mysterious shutdown/reboot

[flexy]

[i will post that also in software....i was not sure if the h/w forum is appropriate...but on the other hand it might be h/w related....]

i have XP SP1, Norton Antivirus etc. and my PC is running fine for over a year now ! I dont have any virii i am aware off !

I log on today, go online..play a video with WinDVD5.

All of a sudden a requester pops up:

"The system will shut down in 60 seconds"

Eventlog says:

SOURCE USER32: EventID 1074
The process winlogon.exe has initiated the restart of RAVEN for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found
Minor Reason: 0xff
Shutdown Type: reboot
Comment: Windows must now restart because the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service terminated unexpectedly

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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ERROR Service Control Manager EventID 7031
The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 1 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Reboot the machine.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



The bizarre thing is that none of such things EVER happened on my machine before !!!!!!!!!!!!

Need help what's going on....

 

[wacki]

I got a similar popup, but it was for 5 minutes. All the computers at Indiana Universities campus do it around 5 AM. Thats all the info I have, but it may not be completely unrelated. Check the admin and networking settings.

sorry that may not help much.... but its all i got

 

[flexy]

yes, but it happened at home I didnt change any settings...i guess it was some rare s/w related error which, for some reason, caused XP to shut down...