excel shutting down workstation when saving..

[adiwillow]

Hi all.. we've got an odd problem.
A customer has office 2000 installed on a windows 2000 workstation, all updates installed. The excel files are kept on the server.

Whenever she saves the file to the server the PC instantly shuts down and restarts (no warnings, black screen, machine switches off). Yet when she saves to local it is fine..

Has anyone come across this before? It occasionally happens with word as well. Its a clean install.

 

[Harvey]

could be a hardware problem I think.

 

[adiwillow]

i'm beginning to think along those lines as well... its got new ram though so maybe m/b fault.

 

[Harvey]

maybe your network device has an io error. IO errors sometimes let the computer restart

 

[adiwillow]

Its a possibility i guess.... i'll look into it... cheers.