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Aiko Aiko


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PC restarting on its own?
#5293798 - 02/13/06 05:29 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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My brand new PC priodically restarts on its own. I've got a 400w PSU so I dont think its that. Any suggestions?
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5293833 - 02/13/06 06:06 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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almost everytime i have had that problem it is because of a bad stick of memory. the other time it was because of overheating.
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: automan]
#5293862 - 02/13/06 06:23 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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...and right as its restarting, weird lines run across the monitor?
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5293871 - 02/13/06 06:29 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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get a live cd to boot off so you can run memtests and hdtests. that will tell you for sure, but i would guess bad ram.
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5293873 - 02/13/06 06:31 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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thanx man, that would suck being its only a week old!
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Re: PC restarting on its own? *DELETED* [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5293879 - 02/13/06 06:38 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: blink]
#5293887 - 02/13/06 06:45 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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the ram is 2 ddr2 Geil sticks. $50 a pop. Grrrrr. Automan, those utilities are not recognized by windows. I tried recovery console and just from a command prompt?
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5293899 - 02/13/06 06:53 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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woops, my bad.
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5294252 - 02/13/06 10:26 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ultimate Boot CD
Don't assume your power supply is innocent just because it's rated to high enough wattage. Some companies rate PSUs at their average output, other, less trustworthy, companies use maximum output. Check the sticker on the side of the PSU under "+12V." If it says anything less than about "22A," you've got a cheapo.
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Or, if it's windows xp,
Start -> control panel -> performance and Maintenance (or system, depends on the look of control panel) -> system -> Advanced tab -> Settings under startup and recovery -> Uncheck automatically restart after system failure and make sure it's not windows that is doing this to you dude.
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Quote:
supercollider said: Ultimate Boot CD
Don't assume your power supply is innocent just because it's rated to high enough wattage. Some companies rate PSUs at their average output, other, less trustworthy, companies use maximum output. Check the sticker on the side of the PSU under "+12V." If it says anything less than about "22A," you've got a cheapo.
Thats not true. I have a good Antec PSU and the 12v is rated at 18A and i've even pushed the 12v line to 12.25v and it's gave me no problems at all over the last 2 years.
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5294850 - 02/13/06 01:41 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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i had a similar problem, but mine would just shut off completely, then i would have to reset it with the switch on the PSU, mine was the PSU, but yours sounds like heat or ram, if you install ubuntu on your system, it comes with memtest on the GRUB thing.
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Aiko Aiko]
#5295839 - 02/13/06 05:06 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Are you online alot? About a year ago there was a virus going around that shut down computers via Internet Explorer.
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: Lana]
#5297737 - 02/14/06 12:30 AM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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yeah, i remember that one, but *supposedly* it came up with a timer that counted down from 30 before it shut down, i looked into that while trying to find my problem
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Re: PC restarting on its own? [Re: supra]
#5299660 - 02/14/06 03:41 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Luckily it wasnt the ram, the atx power cable wasnt seated properly. Everything is running just peachy now Thanx again everyone.
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