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ManianFH
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Computer randomly shuts down
#7804728 - 12/27/07 05:05 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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This thing will randomly shut down, even after being on for 5 minutes. Sometimes it will shut down 3 times in a row.
I am running windows XP, with an AMD processor, about 1G ram, 128 nvidia video processor.
I have disabled temperature shutdown in BIOS, so I am pretty sure it is not because of overheating, but am not certain.
Anyone have ideas as to what could be causing this, and how to fix it?
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im_on_a_boat
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: ManianFH]
#7804744 - 12/27/07 05:09 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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up the voltage to your processor and ram in the bios.
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Seuss
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: ManianFH]
#7804754 - 12/27/07 05:12 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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> I have disabled temperature shutdown in BIOS, so I am pretty sure it is not because of overheating, but am not certain.
Of course if it was overheating, you just ruined your system. Sounds like it was overheating based upon your description.
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: im_on_a_boat]
#7804759 - 12/27/07 05:13 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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UP the voltage????????????????? Dont do that.
1) Get a CPU Benchmark program.. Run it.. See what happens. 2) Get memtest86
These are Process and RAM tests... Both can cause random resets..
Next, get a linux live cd, like knoppix... usually software cant cause random hard restarts... but just try it out!!
It can also be your power supply... which is probably the case.
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: distgre1]
#7804763 - 12/27/07 05:14 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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After re reading your post.. LOWER the voltage
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im_on_a_boat
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: distgre1]
#7804812 - 12/27/07 05:28 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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alright well that's what worked for me..
i got an amd athlon xp 3200+ nvidia nforce7 2.0 512 mb pc3200 radeon 9600 pro (256 mb) 500 gig seagate vista
not much but it's done everything i need it to do for almost four years. efficiently and economically.
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: Seuss]
#7808957 - 12/28/07 10:42 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said:
> I have disabled temperature shutdown in BIOS, so I am pretty sure it is not because of overheating, but am not certain.
Of course if it was overheating, you just ruined your system. Sounds like it was overheating based upon your description.
its been off for years; I used to run it overclocked while playing WoW and CS at the same time with that setting disabled - definitely have not ruined it.. I tried changing the voltage once as well, but this did not go over well, the computer simply refused to boot up. Computers are very hardy pieces of machinery Suess... in all my years on them I have only fried a cpu once, and that was because I put the processor in the wrong way... (I think). It smelled like shit for a long time.
I was thinking new power supply might fix the problem? And actually the other night after it happened again I decided to disconnect the power my 2 cd-rom drives, and it hasnt occured since; to be fair I havent spent much time at all on the computer since doing that.
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: distgre1]
#7808971 - 12/28/07 10:46 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
distgre1 said: UP the voltage????????????????? Dont do that.
1) Get a CPU Benchmark program.. Run it.. See what happens. 2) Get memtest86
These are Process and RAM tests... Both can cause random resets..
Next, get a linux live cd, like knoppix... usually software cant cause random hard restarts... but just try it out!!
It can also be your power supply... which is probably the case.
Thanks ill look into all of these
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: ManianFH]
#7810445 - 12/29/07 12:30 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Once I had a CPU fan fail. My roommates and I started smelling burning plastic. We searched the house for the cause, narrowed it down to the room we were in. Still couldn't id the PC as the cause so we went downstairs to talk to the neighbor. She wasn't home, but we "smelled" her door". Went back upstairs and sat down and the computer was froze up, rebooted it and it crashed - hard. I opened up the case and the fan had melted off the heatsink. After it cooled I tried to remove the CPU and heatsink from the motherboard but it was fucked.
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: YidakiMan]
#7810609 - 12/29/07 01:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Turn on the blue screen error, it may or may not give you useful information. Also run a memory test (memtest86 as others have mentioned) this is what my system started doing when I had a bad stick of ram.
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: Seuss]
#7812566 - 12/30/07 02:48 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said: > I have disabled temperature shutdown in BIOS, so I am pretty sure it is not because of overheating, but am not certain.
Of course if it was overheating, you just ruined your system. Sounds like it was overheating based upon your description.
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Re: Computer randomly shuts down [Re: ManianFH]
#7814913 - 12/30/07 07:23 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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Check your startup programs.
I had that happening to me and it stopped when I deleted a mysterious startup program spelled with Chinese characters.
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