Alan B
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:37 PM |
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Really annoying PC problem...random re-boots
Problem as above.
PC will re-boot without warning at anything from 20 minute to 3 hour intervals. It's not a complete power loss as it comes back up by
itself..just as if it's restarting.
It happened a while back and virus scan seemed to fix it..but now it has returned.
Any ideas?..it is driving me mental (short drive I admit)
Alan
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Benzine
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:42 PM |
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Could be something as simple as a faulty power/reset button, that's happened to me before.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:42 PM |
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do you have the option to got back to an earlier saved version of the system? that's what I do when it goes tits up.
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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twybrow
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:42 PM |
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Mine does this! I am curious as what others say.... Mine also comes up with Kernel problems. I am thinking a format and re-install might be the only
way forward.
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vinny1275
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:43 PM |
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Getting hot, or getting a blue screen, then rebooting? To tell if it's a blue screen, right-click on My Computer, go to Properties, go to the
Advanced tab, and press the Startup and recovery button. in teh System Failure area, take the tick out of the box that says "automatically
restart".
Next time it happens, you'll just get the blue screen of death, with an error message. make a note of that and search Microsoft or google for it
- it's normally a dodgy device driver or something that causes it.
HTH
Vince
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Alan B
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Benzine
Could be something as simple as a faulty power/reset button, that's happened to me before.
Cheers,
I thought that too...but if I simply interupt the power to simulate that, it doesn't reboot....very puzzling
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meany
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:44 PM |
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my old pc used to that (win98se) never dis get to the bottom of it
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vinny1275
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:46 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
do you have the option to got back to an earlier saved version of the system? that's what I do when it goes tits up.
Mr Whippy, do you do anything all day but post on here? Every post I look at was either posted by you or replied to by you!!  Don't let the
boss catch you with the web logs.....
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Alan B
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:46 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by vinny1275
Getting hot, or getting a blue screen, then rebooting? To tell if it's a blue screen, right-click on My Computer, go to Properties, go to the
Advanced tab, and press the Startup and recovery button. in teh System Failure area, take the tick out of the box that says "automatically
restart".
Next time it happens, you'll just get the blue screen of death, with an error message. make a note of that and search Microsoft or google for it
- it's normally a dodgy device driver or something that causes it.
HTH
Vince
Sounds worth a try...cheers....no blue screeen yet as I've seen but I will try your idea..
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 02:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by vinny1275
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
do you have the option to got back to an earlier saved version of the system? that's what I do when it goes tits up.
Mr Whippy, do you do anything all day but post on here? Every post I look at was either posted by you or replied to by you!! Don't let the
boss catch you with the web logs.....
the boss is on the web booking holiday...
I have this site on the screen all day, easy work here most of the time
[Edited on 8/4/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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mackei23b
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 03:01 PM |
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Blaster virus used to do this with XP
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vinny1275
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 03:04 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
the boss is on the web booking holiday...
I have this site on the screen all day, easy work here most of the time
[Edited on 8/4/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fairy snuff......... 
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r1_pete
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 03:09 PM |
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Turn automatic recovery off, then run virus scan to get rid of anything nasty, I cant remember which bug it was but there was one which recovered
itself via auto recovery following a virus scan.
As already suggested check connections etc, also that the motherboard is well insulated from the case, I've seen an occurence of this where the
case just touched the back of the board, (heat expansion etc), earthed something out, wiped the bios, and caused a re-boot.
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greggers
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 03:35 PM |
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Could also be cr*p RAM.
I had this problem with an old PC went through and changed almost every component before I changed the RAM, which finally did the trick.
and before someone says a memory diag tool should pick up any errors none I tried ever did.
If you have two sticks of RAM take one out and try it, if it still does it put the other one back in. Failing that change all the RAM.
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viatron
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 04:01 PM |
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just had exactly this issue with a customers machine, faulty power supply. have also seen it with faulty ram.
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jlparsons
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| posted on 8/4/08 at 05:37 PM |
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Your power supply could be packing in. Go into your bios settings, there should be a page in there telling you what voltages are being produced. If
they're low, there's your problem.
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Alan B
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| posted on 15/4/08 at 12:23 AM |
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Well this is what I did.....I took the side cover off knowing that it must affect the cooling one way or another.....and it's not crashed
since.
So I assume it must be a overheating problem causing the random re-boots..
Thanks for all the good help.
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