System shuts down at progress screen

Here’s my problem.

My Vista computer is (without any prior problems) shutting down at the progress screen. Computer will post, get to the progress screen and after a few seconds the bar stops and the system shuts down. It will not boot in safe mode either. It will boot from the vista disk but when I run the system repair it also shuts down. I tried a different drive and doing a clean install but it won?t finish and shuts down again. I have not installed any new hardware [vista hardware]mod.info/category/vistamods/>[hardware mods] or software. The one thing I can do is boot from a Knoppix CD, and it runs fine. I can see the vista drive and all its contents from Knoppix. I?m pretty stumped on this one. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

This is my configuration;

Vista 64 Ultimate
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Intel DG965WH Motherboard
1GB Kingston PC2 5300
PNY Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT
Antec 500W Power Supply
LiteOn SATA DVD
Seagate 320GB SATA