Hi Eleanor, If both desktop and laptop are both exhibiting similar breakdowns then I would suspect the power supply in your house as being faulty. Paul. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eleanor Burke Sent: 25 June 2011 07:59 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Re: Two Electrical Type Problems No not that Flor but thanks. -original message- Subject: [vip_students] Re: Two Electrical Type Problems From: "Flor Lynch" <florlync@xxxxxx> Date: 25/06/2011 2:57 am Faulty power supply, perhaps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 1:55 AM Subject: [vip_students] Two Electrical Type Problems I have a desk top computer. A new fault over the past 3 days, it will suddenly and for no apparent reason turn itself off!!! At first it was happening on Internet and e-mail but tonight it started when I was reading a long word document. Any ideas on this one please? The second problem relates to a lap top. It's problem is that if I plug in a USB keyboard this triggers the lap top to turn off. It is not possible to power on again for nearly 24 hours!!!! Now where on earth am I getting these gremlins? eleanor -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 3616 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message NCBI: Celebrating 80 Years ******************************************************************** National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) is a company limited by guarantee (registered in Ireland No. 26293) . Our registered office is at Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. NCBI is also a registered Charity (chy4626). NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************