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Restarting - Heat Related?
Name: TheColinater Date: April 20, 2005 at 13:31:53 Pacific OS: Windows Xp Pro CPU/Ram: Athon 512
Comment:
Hi everyone, This issue used to occour with my old computer, and it is occouring again with my new one. It seems to be realted to heat or humidity, and what it is doing is restarting spontaniously. It does not reboot in safe mode, and acts as if nothing happened. Yesterday was the first really hot day out since i got the computer, and is when this started happening. I am not overclocking the computer, and do not run any intensive graphics on it. Does anyone have any ideas as to what this may be? or know what a suitbile temperature range is for the computer, it seems to me that it was not hot enough that it should be overheating as the room was around 30 degrees C (my guess of.... 80-90 F), thanks in advance for any help, Colin
Name: Badboy Date: April 20, 2005 at 13:39:39 Pacific
Reply:
Run Motherboard Monitor and see what temps you have for your CPU.
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Response Number 2
Name: rmackie Date: April 20, 2005 at 15:14:23 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Colin,
I noticed that your PC doesn't reboot in safe mode...that leaves me to believe that the restarting is due to a driver/system/configuration issue. (one of those possibly all) When did the restarting occur? Also, restarts can be caused by a faulty power supply (not enough current to handle the load) as well as faulty ram. Provide a few more details on your setup and it will be easier to pinpoint a prob. Also..post your CPU/Sys temps.
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