Random computer shutdowns

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:56 pm

I couldn't find a Hardware Monitor or anything similar in the BIOS. Couldn't find a temp display anywhere... The computer will now let me stay in BIOS as long as I want but the moment I exit and try to boot to the hard drive, it crashes.

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:35 pm

How old is this computer? Can you boot from a CD? If you can I'd do that and run memtest86 for a while to see if it shuts down. If not then you likely have a problem with the hard drive or windows itself.

If it still shuts down I'd try swapping the power supply to narrow things down a little at least.

Burz · Post by **Burz** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:03 am

Maxill wrote:LOL I just watched Harold & Kumar yesteday....

Neil Patrick Harris totally kicked ass in that movie.

-=Xilanthanax=- · Post by **-=Xilanthanax=-** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:57 am

Dude, Doogie Howser just stole my car.

Grygonos Thunderwulf · Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:10 am

"NPH would do no such thing....love that show..."

Maxill · Post by **Maxill** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:28 am

Burz wrote:Neil Patrick Harris totally kicked ass in that movie.

/agree...

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:57 pm

The comp isn't old at all. It's a Dell Optiplex GX280. Never had a problem with it before. I tried the hard drive in another computer and it worked fine so I know it's not that... I clicked out the RAM, then put it back in and it worked for about 10 min before going back to it's normal crashing state.

Embar Angylwrath · Post by **Embar Angylwrath** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:37 pm

Taxious wrote:The comp isn't old at all. It's a Dell Optiplex GX280. Never had a problem with it before. I tried the hard drive in another computer and it worked fine so I know it's not that... I clicked out the RAM, then put it back in and it worked for about 10 min before going back to it's normal crashing state.

Think I found your problem.

Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:04 am

Dell overall isn't so bad. The Optiplex is crap though.

Download the diagnostics off Dell's web page, make floppies, and diagnose away. There's also a tool that will try and diagnose blue screen events, but since your system isn't stable enough for that I doubt it would help.