Hi
I have quite an interesting problem with a student at my workplace. Whenever he goes to use a comptuer, it either shuts down or goes into standby. This has happened now for around 2 months, and i have tried everything that i know. We are running a server 2003 network with 4 servers and 120-130 workstations (including laptops). I have a new macbook pro, running osx and windows xp. For the ultimate test for this strange shutting down, I tried him using the macbook pro in osx and it still shutdown. I have tried to delete the user from the active directory, and even let him use the comptuer logged in as another student, a staff member, even an administrator. The problem is so weird, that i have watched him sit at a computer and not touch it, and it turned off. (he was just watching a video that i had set up for him). He brought in his laptop from home this morning, and it does the same thing on that. All computers apart from the macbook pro use windowsxp.
After all my debugging i have come down to a hardware issue with the student. It is not his uniform, as we have tried him in a change of clothes, and i tried connecting him using an anti static strap, but the computer still turned off. It is not a network issue, as it still turns off osx and his laptop which is not connected to the school network.
This student has been using the computers all year, but it only started doing this in the last few months. I tried re imaging the workstations to fix the problem, but that didn’t work either.
I have tried a keyboard without a standby button, I have also tried a wireless keyboard and mouse and the monitor 5m away from the computer.
This problem seems rather weird, and I am unsure what to try next?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated..
Thanks
James