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randomly re-booting
Name: joshinok Date: September 18, 2005 at 16:21:28 Pacific OS: windows 2000 pro CPU/Ram: pent 3.0 gig 512 ram
Comment:
My computer has starting re-booting itself randomly. I have ran virus and spyware scans, not finding anything. Is this a hardware or software problem? Sometimes it will go days without re-booting and sometimes just 20 minutes. The computer seems to run fine in between re-boots.
Name: brian10161 Date: September 18, 2005 at 19:34:35 Pacific
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when does it do it? does it do it when you launch software or just when its sitting idle or maybe both? if you can let me know, then we can go from there.
my computer runs good, dont bug me about it
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Response Number 2
Name: ghn22 Date: September 19, 2005 at 01:48:37 Pacific
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I am having same issue but mine just shuts off and only during media files being played. Such as a song or a movie, even then it takes about 3 minutes to turn off. Otherwise I can leave PC running for days and no problems. Power Supply maybe?
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Response Number 3
Name: ooglenz1 Date: September 19, 2005 at 03:33:14 Pacific
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If no virusses then its prolly cuz your processor gets too hot as safety it will turn off the computer so it wont damage the processor. But i still think you got a virus, do you have all security updates installed on your pc from microsoft?
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Response Number 4
Name: StriderFx Date: September 19, 2005 at 05:00:05 Pacific
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Depending on the type of PC you should also consider it being a bad capacitor issue. I have to deal with that problem with a lot of Dell GX 270's. To see if your motherboard could have this problem check out www.badcaps.net
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Response Number 5
Name: johns3 Date: September 19, 2005 at 06:32:00 Pacific
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joshinok - first thing i would try is another power supply. when they start to fail they will cause random rebooting at diferent times. just depends on when the PSU over heats the failing components.
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Response Number 6
Name: jimmpy83 Date: September 19, 2005 at 08:24:46 Pacific
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is there any thermal event malfunctioning..as well as u can try new ram for ur motherboard...
till then keep rockin and let me know if u can't
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Response Number 7
Name: GX1 Man Date: September 19, 2005 at 22:13:10 Pacific
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Too much heat or bad power supply most likely culprits.
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