13 Feb 11, 12:36PM
If this were an exploit related to AC we'd hear of more cases like this.
If you didn't use the official package (which you say you did) this will probably contain some backdoor-software; but those sort of people usually don't want to kill your machine - they want to make it into a zombie and use it to distribute spam-emails and/or DDoS attacks.
The most likely candidates then - as makkE said - are either your hardware in general or some malicious-virus that has managed to infect you; some are very clever and can even survive a complete exchange of the harddrive (lodging themselves into the e-prom on your mainboard used for the boot-sequence).
The phrase "shuts down before it gets to windows" is probably where you should be taking note of exact behaviour. If it's actually turning off I'd bet on hardware issues, if it's coming up with a blue-screen then the files mentioned there should be taken note of and then you should go hunting for malware, virus and those filenames.
If you didn't use the official package (which you say you did) this will probably contain some backdoor-software; but those sort of people usually don't want to kill your machine - they want to make it into a zombie and use it to distribute spam-emails and/or DDoS attacks.
The most likely candidates then - as makkE said - are either your hardware in general or some malicious-virus that has managed to infect you; some are very clever and can even survive a complete exchange of the harddrive (lodging themselves into the e-prom on your mainboard used for the boot-sequence).
The phrase "shuts down before it gets to windows" is probably where you should be taking note of exact behaviour. If it's actually turning off I'd bet on hardware issues, if it's coming up with a blue-screen then the files mentioned there should be taken note of and then you should go hunting for malware, virus and those filenames.