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dozerman

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Computer Shutting Down?
« on: January 28, 2007, 03:22:55 PM »
It shuts down & says:your computer is shutting down to prevent damage. It says I need to disable a driver or update it. Can you tell me how to find the drivers? What do I do?

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Re: Computer Shutting Down?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2007, 05:27:28 PM »
Much more relevant info on your machine, OS and what happened prior to this and the posse' will be along shortly...
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dozerman

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Re: Computer Shutting Down?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2007, 09:38:52 PM »
Its a Compaq Presario 5000, Win XP SP2.1300mhz, A blue screen comes up, has a stop message:0x0000008e. Says driver ,first letter looks like an upsidedown L 81xdnt5.dll, needs to be updated or disabled.

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Re: Computer Shutting Down?
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2007, 06:47:12 PM »
Yep that message defininetly points to a driver conflict of sorts...have you added or subtracted anything from that machine recently ? ?

One place to check would be Control Panel / System / Hardware / Device Manager...look for yellow exclamation points.
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dozerman

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Re: Computer Shutting Down?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2007, 07:24:58 PM »
I got it solved, I hope, It seems to be doing alright now. I ran CCleaner, SpyBot Search & Destroy & that seems to have fixed it.

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Re: Computer Shutting Down?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2007, 07:39:11 PM »
Sometimes we are just that quick...

But i doubt seriously that a driver conflict could be solved by the things you did...expect more issues in the days to follow.
« Last Edit: January 29, 2007, 07:40:28 PM by patio »
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Re: Computer Shutting Down?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2007, 07:41:06 PM »
LOL!  ;D ::) :-[ :o :o :o :o  I hope not!
« Last Edit: January 29, 2007, 07:41:57 PM by dozerman »

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Re: Computer Shutting Down?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2007, 06:24:07 PM »
Trust me.
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