mookaloid
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| posted on 7/9/05 at 07:14 PM |
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Random rebooting
My Brother in Law's PC keeps rebooting itself at random times
it can sometimes several attempts to boot up then it can reboot itself at any time thereafter.
Is this likely to be a hardware fault?
He has antivirus software which is up to date and it hasn't detected anything out of the ordinary.
Any suggestions appreciated
Cheers
Mark
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Arthur Dent
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| posted on 7/9/05 at 07:24 PM |
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might be the power supply. Can you borrow one out of another machine?
'The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go
wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.' Douglas Adams
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Rek
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| posted on 7/9/05 at 08:04 PM |
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Check out the seating of all hardware one the Motherboard. Ive had a problem with random rebooting cased by the AGP card being gradually wiggled out
of the socket by the weight of the Cable that caused a similar thing..
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britishtrident
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| posted on 7/9/05 at 08:49 PM |
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Also check the cooling fans in addition there are a couple of virus/trojans/worms that will do this
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Hellfire
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| posted on 7/9/05 at 09:02 PM |
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Doesn't MSblaster virus do this?
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planetester
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| posted on 7/9/05 at 09:19 PM |
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Mine did this, I tracked it down to bad capacitors on the motherboard, Go to http://badcaps.net/ apparently there are millions of motherboards out
there with the dodgy capacitors, you can spot them because they are bulging at the top, I got 9 new ones from rs & all has been ok since
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Dale
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| posted on 8/9/05 at 12:32 AM |
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Just finished 2 weeksago putting 10 new caps on the motherboard of my wifes pc. It was rebooting continously - started out simply enough but got
progressivly worse.- - look at the bigger 1500uf caps ont the board- usually with a x on the top of them- they should have flat tops , if they are
bumped on the top and maybe the x spread a bit - the caps are toast. With her new caps the pc has been on for 2 weeks continously with no
rebooting.
Dale
Thanks
Dale
my 14 and11 year old boys 22
and 19 now want to drive but have to be 25 before insurance will allow. Finally on the road
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britishtrident
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| posted on 8/9/05 at 07:41 AM |
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If a motherboard gets to the stage of needing new capacitors bin it
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planetester
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| posted on 9/9/05 at 10:54 PM |
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Dont bin it, bet you will need a new chip & memory because you wont be able to buy a modern board that compatable so it will cost at least
£100.
get the soldering iron out
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Hellfire
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| posted on 11/9/05 at 07:55 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
If a motherboard gets to the stage of needing new capacitors bin it
If it's doing this - I agree. It'll prolly be old hat and need updating - use the problem as an opportunity to upgrade!
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/9/05 at 09:20 PM |
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Update:
Brother in law vacuumed all the fluff out of it and reseated all the memory and PCI cards and Graphics card etc.
Seems a lot better now.
Thanks for the suggestions guys
Cheers
Mark
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