[djmcmath]

Sammy, it sounds like the service host is coming up in response to another application. Killing the service host kills the application. If I had to guess, just based on your description, I'd say that something else is starting up, asking for a service host, then killing the machine. Are you sure there's nothing else installed on the machine? Often, otherwise innocuous programs will install a background portion of their application. Sometimes it's a quick-starter, othertimes it's blatent spyware, but these apps are often poorly designed and don't integrate well with the rest of the system. If you (or your totally innocent daughter) has installed something else on the system besides just plain windows, that might be causing it too.

BTW, I'd be hesitant to blame the hardware. In all my years of troubleshooting these things, I've been able to prove intermittent hardware problems all of zero times. I've suspected hardware lots of times, but haven't been able to logically prove it. Maybe I'm just cheap (and hardware isn't!)? Good luck; this kind only comes out with prayer and fasting,

Dan


PS -- I may have no clue what I'm talking about. If you think I'm just totally out in left field, feel free to completely disregard this response.