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Serious shut down issue - I assume.
Three times in the last month my system has simply shut itself down abnormally and rebooted, right in the middle of whatever I was doing.
Upon restarting it informs me that windows has just shut abnormally (duh) and do I want it to do a diagnostic and repair.
Given that the alternative is go pick posies, I say yes. It takes quite a long time (20 or 30 minutes?) but eventually it is running as if nothing had happened.
So:
Is this more likely a hardware problem or a software problem? Either way, will it help to kick the computer in the shins? If not, what?