Computer shuts down when idle vista

I would check the BIOS for power saving features. Sounds like the BIOS is detecting the machine's idle, and shutting down. I suspect they will walk you through it, or remote in and figure out what's causing it.

I doubt you'll need an RMA, but requesting one will get them interested in your case. Can you let one of these sit in a BIOS screen overnight to see if it shuts down?

It would at least let you know something in Windows is going whacky. Applying updates to system bios, and windows,usually will take care of it. My plan B was to contact Dell but wanted to try and figure it out myself first.

Air Jimi The machine doesn't blue screen. Just shuts off. Thanks for the link though, I will read through it. Snozzberries I will also try that on another machine though by default, we set the power options to disable all those except turn off monitor. Wenn Sie nicht sicher sind, informieren Sie sich vor der Deinstallation beim Softwareanbieter. Trifft nicht auf Server und Storage zu. Diesen Artikel bewerten Wenn nicht anders angegeben, sind alle Felder Pflichtfelder.

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By default General tab will open, enter the following settings here. Above image is also highlighting the settings:. Click the New button as highlighted in the above image and do settings for this Triggers section. As you will click New button, New Trigger dialogue box will appear as follows:. This setting of trigger depends on your choice. You can schedule the task One time, Daily, Weekly or Monthly.

But for this tutorial, I have selected the Daily radio button and check the box Synchronize across time zones. Check the box named Enabled and click OK to close the New Trigger dialogue box like the above image shows. As you will click the OK button you will get back to the Create Task dialogue box. It will look like this:.

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