It may be rare for a video driver to cause a complete shutdown of the computer, but it does happen - speaking from experience.  This computer was purchased this past june, arrived in July, and within a few weeks I was putting it through its paces with Vue.  Inevitably, the sculpting of terrains caused Vue to crash so hard my computer crashed as well (which caused all sorts of issues, including having to reboot numerous times to get my mouse working again).  After talking with the Wonderfully Wise Gurus here on the boards, it was suggested I update my video driver (something I had forgotten to do... blushes). It seems a bad driver CAN cause problems that seem totally unrelated...

It worked.  Even though I am now likely two or three "updates" behind, I refuse to update my driver... If it ain't broke, I am NOT fixing it!  Vue is running smoothly (knock on wood), and ever since I updated the driver - no sudden "crash of death" issues.  Not to say Vue doesn't crash now and then - that's typical of the program ;) - but I no longer end up with the entire computer shutting down at the same time!

Aisuru - if you updated (or your computer automatically did it) the driver, and Vue doesn't LIKE that driver, it CAN (although as Shawn stated, it's rare) cause your computer to shut itself down. 

IF you decide to try to roll back the driver to a previous version and it corrects the issue, please do everyone a favor?  Post that it got corrected in here - and then send the E-on techs a message letting them know that the NVidia ForceWare 285.58 / XP driver has potential "issues" with Vue and can force a hard shut-down of the computer.  This way they can add (or not, as they see fit) it to this list:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/products/vue/vue_10_infinite/?page=15

 

I am crossing my fingers for you - that it's a simple issue like a driver and not a card going bad and/or overheatting...

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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