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Computer restarting itself
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10. November 2007 @ 12:25 |
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Well yeah the title says it all, my computer out of nowhere will restart itself every so often (it seems to be every 2 days im not 100% sure tho) but yh i leave it on alot because of downloads and its a bitch when i come back to it and its restarted. I have a dell 5150 with windows xp home edition SP2. any help with fixing this problem would be great. thanks
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10. November 2007 @ 12:40 |
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could be anything
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strip it down to just harddrive , mob, psu, processor, ram
bare min and see if it will run, if yes then start adding one thing at a time or per day in your case
(leave it running)
youll find it
when a laser device (cd rom, dvd)goes strange things happen
hope this helps
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10. November 2007 @ 12:43 |
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PS: could be two things wrong even...i got hit by lightling once...err twice but once per machine and that will take out multiple things
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10. November 2007 @ 13:05 |
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well it never happened before i reformatted about a month ago, so i dont think that could be the problem.
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10. November 2007 @ 13:46 |
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cold be a trojan too since you download a lot of things.
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10. November 2007 @ 14:08 |
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Well i only really download iso's but its possible it could be a trojan but i think i remember it restarting itself like the day i reformatted when i had downloaded nothing so there wouldnt have been any trojans then.
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jony218
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12. November 2007 @ 00:42 |
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When I had a similar problem it was caused by a video card that was getting too hot. When it reach a critical point it would crash the computer causing it to shutoff. The video card in question didn't have a fan on it, I installed a 80mm fan pointed at the video card heatsink and that fix the problem.
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12. November 2007 @ 16:38 |
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put your xp disc in boot from cd
press 'r' to start recovery console
press 1
press enter or put in admin password
type chkdsk /r at the prompt
wait till it's done then try again
i7 3770 12GB ram terrabyte sata drive 1 750Gb sata drive 285GTX graphics Sony dvdwriter same NZXT Nemesis case
Still playing Black Hawk Down why did I upgrade?
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12. November 2007 @ 18:17 |
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What does that do to the PC??
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12. November 2007 @ 20:48 |
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it checks the windows file system for errors and repairs them.
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13. November 2007 @ 07:57 |
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ok then ill give it a go in a while and let you know the results.
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