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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: bignewt on October 30, 2010, 09:31:34 PM

Title: mind of its own
Post by: bignewt on October 30, 2010, 09:31:34 PM

I built a system about 5 years ago for my wife's cousin. She recently indicated that the computer kept shutting off. At first I thought that she had picked up a big but that was not the case. I did change the pwr supply,hardrive,disconnected all the peripherals and to no avail.I also added extra artic silver to the CPU.I guess I need to look at the mobo/processor, but there wasn't any indication of overheating. I monitored the CPU fan and it was operating above 2200 rpms. Any help would be appreciated. :||x

Title: Re: mind of its own
Post by: bignewt on October 30, 2010, 09:40:05 PM

I forgot to mention the specs.

abit NF-M2S
CRUCIAL 2 GB
ATHLON 3800 DUAL CORE
WINDOWS XP PRO X64

Title: Re: mind of its own
Post by: patio on October 31, 2010, 07:38:00 AM

DLoad and install SpeedFan....post a screenshot of your temps...both at idle and under load.

Title: Re: mind of its own
Post by: bignewt on October 31, 2010, 09:29:12 AM

what is happening now is that even when I boot up it shuts off! I can go into the bios all day long and it dosen't shut off.  ???

Title: Re: mind of its own
Post by: Allan on October 31, 2010, 09:32:24 AM

What happens in safe mode?

Title: Re: mind of its own
Post by: bignewt on October 31, 2010, 09:49:51 AM

I have been able to go into safemode but it has shutdown in safemode as well.

Title: Re: mind of its own
Post by: Allan on October 31, 2010, 10:30:04 AM

Then I'm with patio - temperature / psu would be my first thought.