Help, my computer is completely fuxxored

Silent Sniper · Post by **Silent Sniper** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:00 am

Here's the problem:

The damned thing has started randomly rebooting itself two or three times a day. Any ideas on what is making it do this?

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:04 am

My guess would be heat. Check to make sure your fan isn't clogged, and take the side of the case off to get some extra ventilation. If this helps, you might want to get a few extra case fans to keep the heat down.

Kwyndig · Post by **Kwyndig** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:04 am

I'm going to beat everyone else to the punch and ask you a question, what are your hardware specs? What OS do you use? etc... Otherwise, it's kind of hard to answer your question. As a generic answer, have you checked your power supply?

FlameBlade · Post by **FlameBlade** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:10 am

And how old is your computer?

I had that problem not too long ago...it was motherboard battery failure, clogged fan, and more...

Silent Sniper · Post by **Silent Sniper** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:16 am

OS: Windows XP

Specs:

2.4 ghz processor
256 meg Ram
60 gigabyte hard frive

The cooling fan appears to be working normally.

Adam · Post by **Adam** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:21 am

What message are you getting with the reboot, or are you not getting any - just a reboot, as opposed to a crash/reboot?

Have you installed any new software lately? Scanned for viruses with an up to date virus definition? Run a full scandisk on your hard drive?

Silent Sniper · Post by **Silent Sniper** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 2:32 am

And how old is your computer?

Got it last summer.

What message are you getting with the reboot, or are you not getting any - just a reboot, as opposed to a crash/reboot?

No message. The screen just goes black for a few seconds and it reboots.

Have you installed any new software lately? Scanned for viruses with an up to date virus definition? Run a full scandisk on your hard drive?

Installed Halo on Christmas, nothing since then.

Last virus scan was on Friday and it didn't find anything.

Have to check when the last Scandisk was.

Thunderchild · Post by **Thunderchild** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 9:11 am

what brand of cpu?

are you running the standard cooler?

whats the ambient room temperature?

How many watts is your power supply unit?

is there alot of dust on yout heatsink?

Ikarus7 · Post by **Ikarus7** » Tue Jan 20, 2004 11:31 pm

My roomate had the exact same problem this summer, his computer screen would just go black and the system would reboot. He found out that it did happen a lot more when the computer was in a cold room. If the computer was somewhere hot, it wouldn't shut down like it use to do.

He finnaly found out that it was his motherboard that was fucked up, for some reason the heat sensor was fucked up.