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bignewt

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    mind of its own
    « 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
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    bignewt

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      Re: mind of its own
      « Reply #1 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
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      patio

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      Re: mind of its own
      « Reply #2 on: October 31, 2010, 07:38:00 AM »
      DLoad and install SpeedFan....post a screenshot of your temps...both at idle and under load.
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        Re: mind of its own
        « Reply #3 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.  ???
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        Allan

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        Re: mind of its own
        « Reply #4 on: October 31, 2010, 09:32:24 AM »
        What happens in safe mode?
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          Re: mind of its own
          « Reply #5 on: October 31, 2010, 09:49:51 AM »
          I have been able to go into safemode but it has shutdown in safemode as well.
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          Re: mind of its own
          « Reply #6 on: October 31, 2010, 10:30:04 AM »
          Then I'm with patio - temperature / psu would be my first thought.
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