Computer Shutdowns without reason

My colleague ran down the hard drive free space to almost nil. I was able to back up the important files and free up sufficient space. I ran disk utility and Apple Jack to repair scrambled files/directories. Everything seemed good to go but just before the computer started crashing and showing problems and I was able to free the disk space, she reported the computer just shutting down by itself without warning after 30 minutes or so. I thought my clean up would fix the issue however it still persists. Any ideas?

Quote from: Jack the Newbie on 05-October-07, 03:39:30
You can't simply add the amperages together. Combined maximum amperage for Giftmacher's PSU for all 12V rails is 50A (600W), not 54A.
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=279&type=expert&pid=2
In any case, what does his PSU have to do with ashourism's problem?
Correction 50A total.

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But since I am traveling and have to shutdown the computer frequently, I took it to Best Buy for diagnosis. After a lot of back and forth, they discovered the problem: "ntkrnimp.exe is the cause of the error." It was determined that an Adobe installation installed the file with either Flash Player or Acrobat Reader. Their solution was to remove both installations. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way to do without either of these products so I reinstalled them.
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Hi
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Since there has no domain enviroment, remote access is more difficult. However, if the network allows this two workgroups can communicate with each other, you can try Powershell Remoting:
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1) Run
Enable-PSRemoting –Force on server2
You need to run
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Disabled
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iOS: Forgot passcode or device disabled
If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
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Hi @timotius ,
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