-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Random shutdown/restarts
- From: ~OoO~ <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:26:28 -0500
If you do the update, and it allows for the monitoring, that would at least
show whether or not the CPU is overheating. But, if the fans are running,
that's probably not it, unless you've added something recently that would make
the processor overheat much quicker (more processes), or if maybe the fans are
turning, but just not at full capacity.
Other than that and the RAM, the other culprit could be a bad mobo.
::: Troth :::
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::: Original Message
::: Sent Mon, 05 Jan 2004 11:33:30 -0400 by DavisUnit
| ~OoO~ wrote:
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| >How are all your other fans in the machine? Can you check in your BIOS if
you have any monitoring section? If so, after a shutdown you can go into the
BIOS and check the temperature of the CPU and see if maybe that's overheating.
| >::: Troth :::
| >
| Fans (new power supply, and cpu) are running normally. The BIOS does
| not report temperatures, but maybe with a BIOS update it would
| (Spacewalker motherboard)
|
| Terry
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| >::: Original Message
| >::: Sent Sat, 03 Jan 2004 13:50:53 -0400 by DavisUnit
| >| I'm working on a PIII-550 machine that has randomly been shutting
| >| down/restarting - sometimes within an hour, somtimes within 3 hours or
| >| more. My first thoughts lead to the power supply or ram. So, after
| >| completely wiping hard drive and reinstalling XP, I install and run
| >| burnin software for testing. There are 3 sticks of sdram - 256mb, 128mb
| >| and 64mb. I run the machine with only one ram stick at a time, and run
| >| the burnin software - only to see the pc shutdown/restart with each
| >| one. Next I replace the power supply (with higher 400w version), and it
| >| seems to run good....only to see it shutdown/restart after about 12
| >| hours of use. When it'll happen again is anyone's guess.
| >| So, what else should I be looking at?
| >|
| >| Thanks,
| >| Terry
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