Posted earlier question about the Atom, I can see now that it's mainly for home theater. The reason that I'm shopping for a new system is that my main one did a bunch of weird shutdowns earlier.
Long post, so sorry, but here are the high points. Wife admitted to opening a suspicious email. Right after, she started getting errors from AVG Free. She rebooted and errors returned. I removed the AVG but then IE started throwing errors and wouldn't launch. Then I removed the NetNanny software and installed the latest version. IE returned and I immediately loaded the lastest AVG. I began a scan and let it run over night.
In the morning I found the system off. No one turned it off, it went off by itself and the setting to power down the system after the scan was not on. However, the system wouldn't even POST. I removed the cover and blew out the dust. All the fans spun up. I reseated the DIMMs. Nothing helped. Tried another HD (not sure if it is a good one). No luck.
The next day the system started but only stayed on for a few seconds. Over time it got better and better and seems fine now. What happened?
Long post, so sorry, but here are the high points. Wife admitted to opening a suspicious email. Right after, she started getting errors from AVG Free. She rebooted and errors returned. I removed the AVG but then IE started throwing errors and wouldn't launch. Then I removed the NetNanny software and installed the latest version. IE returned and I immediately loaded the lastest AVG. I began a scan and let it run over night.
In the morning I found the system off. No one turned it off, it went off by itself and the setting to power down the system after the scan was not on. However, the system wouldn't even POST. I removed the cover and blew out the dust. All the fans spun up. I reseated the DIMMs. Nothing helped. Tried another HD (not sure if it is a good one). No luck.
The next day the system started but only stayed on for a few seconds. Over time it got better and better and seems fine now. What happened?