Random computer shutdowns

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:11 pm

One of the office computers I use has been acting really strange lately. Randomly it will just shut down. When I start back up, it says "This computer was shut down due to a thermal event." I'm assuming that means that it overheated. I checked the fan, it's working fine, I even put it by a cold windows ect...

After it boots into windows it pops up a prompt that windows made a log of the crash and I should send it to microsoft yadda yadda. After error reporting it pulls up a windows that says it was caused by a devide driver. I havn't installed any new hardware/software any time recently. I don't know what's going on, anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Shallon · Post by **Shallon** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:13 pm

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gineeva · Post by **gineeva** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:28 pm

Check the BIOS Temp settings and the shut off temp.

Klast Brell · Post by **Klast Brell** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:43 pm

You may want to check the heatsink under the fan to see if it's becone clogged with lint.

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 4:53 pm

I checked the heatsink and blew out some lent but it seems like the problem is getting worse. Now it won't even get into windows before it just shuts off, sometimes it only stays on for 3 seconds. I'll look at the BIOS Temp settings... could it be a power supply failure?

-=Xilanthanax=- · Post by **-=Xilanthanax=-** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 5:28 pm

Sounds like it to me. But I'm not an expert like half the guys on this board, I'm still in school to be one.

Post by **Ddrak** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 7:49 pm

Go into BIOS and just sit at the BIOS screen with the temperatures showing. If it rises dramatically then you've got heatsink problems.

Dd

Fobbon Lazyfoot · Post by **Fobbon Lazyfoot** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:00 am

i thought heatsinks weren't worth their weight in cow shit?

Robyn the Ranger · Post by **Robyn the Ranger** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:07 am

In your BIOS, typically you look for something that says "Hardware Monitor".. that's where you'll find yer temperature to look at... if you're runnin a pentium processor, anything over 135 and i'd start worryin' personally.. not sure about AMD..

writher · Post by **writher** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:24 am

Out of curiousity what type of CPU is it?

Taxious · Post by **Taxious** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:53 am

P4, 3.0 Ghz

writher · Post by **writher** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:46 am

That's interesting because P4's are supposed to have thermal protection/throttling in which they reduce their clock rate until the tempurate is acceptable. In no way am I saying that should be a permanent fix to a heat problem, but it still doesn't make sense that you would get this message because of an overheating CPU. Like others have said, check your BIOS hardware monitor. Look at the CPU temperature, and the Motherboard and/or memory temperature if available.

Grygonos Thunderwulf · Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:54 am

you don't truly have a thermal problem until your chip melts through your mobo.. until you just bought wussy hardware that's afraid to be EXTREME!! and run at uber high temps.. RAWR! ( that's my way of saying ...uh yeah ... check the bios temps)

Robyn the Ranger · Post by **Robyn the Ranger** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:57 am

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-=Xilanthanax=- · Post by **-=Xilanthanax=-** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:01 am

DUDE THAT WAS TOTALLY NOT EXTREME

Grygonos Thunderwulf · Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:23 pm

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Maxill · Post by **Maxill** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:24 pm

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Bahd Zoolander · Post by **Bahd Zoolander** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:57 pm

Fobbon Lazyfoot wrote:i thought heatsinks weren't worth their weight in cow shit?

Stop thinking.

JamiesanTGrauerwolf · Post by **JamiesanTGrauerwolf** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:07 pm

also might be a power supply problem. If you have a weak power supply, and have the machine loaded down with hard drives and cards that draw a lot of power, then it may be that.

I have a computer that does the same thing. It's an emachine with a wussy little 200W PS. I have 2hds, 2cdroms, Net and a heavy drawing vid card in it. It shuts down randomly also. I went in to bios at one point and watched the temp stayed about the same (I have 6 fans in the case), but the power dropped below 11.5 V for what is supposed to be a 12v system. I'm pretty sure tha'ts out of spec.

Grygonos Thunderwulf · Wed Feb 02, 2005 3:22 pm

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