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Cheetah I post too much
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: |
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| Leomylimy wrote: | But is that the reason why it restarts?
And what is PSU? |
It could be, but even if it's not, you'll want to cool it down, or you'll risk it being unstable and could kill the processor prematurely. If you don't know how to change a heatsink though you should take it to a repair shop, if you don't attach it correctly it could fry your CPU, the newer socket 775 heatsinks are especially tricky to get right.
The PSU is a (usually gray) box with a ton of wires coming out of it, it's where you plug your power into, and it converts it from the 120v AC from your wall outlet, to 3.3v,5v, and 12v DC that your computer can use. But if you don't know what it is I don't recommend messing with it yourself
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Lemonlime Expert Cheater
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: |
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Wow ur smart...
Well this is an old pc.. my Main is at Repair shop the USB ports didtn work corectly and i wanted to get this fixed...
Hmm can it be other reasons? that it restarts? Like kaspersky or something sayd ? but i cant find the place where he means?
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Cheetah I post too much
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:37 am Post subject: |
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" Right click my computer -> advanced -> system report & recovery
uncheck restart on system failure. "
Try that first.
Also when you right click on my computer, check the model of processor and post it here.
You should burn a memtest disc if you haven't yet and try that, the memory being bad is the most likely thing.
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Lemonlime Expert Cheater
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:44 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, but im not on a admin use and when i right click not my computer but it says this computer i dont see advanced? it says properties and some other stuff but there is no advanced? can it be im not a admin user or what ever its called?
How i check model of procceser?
Oh how high the proccesser is?
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Cheetah I post too much
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:50 am Post subject: |
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It won't let you change that option if you're not an administrator.
One thing I forgot, pull off the side panel and see if there's any dust, and if so , get a can of compressed air and clean it out, that could be your problem.
It should say on the bottom right corner of the first tab when you right click my computer and properties, it should say Intel or AMD and then the model like Pentium, Athlon, etc
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:59 am Post subject: |
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ive allready cleaned it..
And il try on a admin user after this..
Anyways its a athlon(tm) XP 2200+
EDIT: Ive done what u sayd with Uncheck like Kasper sayd.. I dont hope it restarts agian xD
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DeletedUser14087 I post too much
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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If you're (Topic Starter)not going to corporate with me then i give up on you, i've experienced this issue and fixed it, but w.e i'll tell you some reasons it happens and advise:
*2nd hand / curropted Hardware device
*melted peice in mainboard / leakage
*Out-of-date drivers
*Overheat
*Bad RAM
*Incompatible parts
Try opening half side of your box with an air conditioner and tell me if it keeps restarting you. (if so then it'll happen once a)
if you are wondering why you get rebooted uncheck "restart at system failure"
-Right click my pc
-advanced
-system error & recovery
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me Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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your missing out one bit
it should be
right click MY COMPUTER
then click PROPERTIES
then click the ADVANCED tab
then in startup and recovery click the settings button
to uncheck the Automatically Restart option you must have admin privileges
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:49 am Post subject: |
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I did... it didtn help anything..
Once my Screen frose.. i had to restart myself by hitting the button on my PC...
Another time my screen got black out.. the PC was on but i coulden see anything.. i pressed onces quick on PC close button and it closed in ½ sek..
It didtn help me..
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me Grandmaster Cheater
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:36 am Post subject: |
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well at some point someone might have said try reinstalling windows or use the installation disks repair option,
might not be hardware
try putting in the windows cd and use the repair option,
you will need to put the service packs back on, well at least sp1, sp2 is shit really,
just saying it might be windows has become unstable and not be the hardware problem after all,
if your psu cpu video card fans are all working it shouldnt be an overheating problem,
if the psu fan wasnt working you would know about that pretty quickly lol,
if it was an overheating problem it would be more regular than restarting every day or two, it would more likely shut down every time it warmed up too much, which is at a fairly predictable rate,
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edit oh you done that already
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by the way you could have reinstalled a virus because its after that virus that your problems started,
so watch what software you reinstall and see when the problem happens again.
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tell you what
why not just reinstall windows and the firewall, antivirus along with your internet connection,
install nothing else for a couple of days and see it it stops restarting without the extra crap in it,
you want to turn off your remote services and telnet and dcom services as well,
they can be used to shut down your pc remotely as well
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Cheetah I post too much
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| me wrote: | well at some point someone might have said try reinstalling windows or use the installation disks repair option,
might not be hardware
try putting in the windows cd and use the repair option,
you will need to put the service packs back on, well at least sp1, sp2 is shit really,
just saying it might be windows has become unstable and not be the hardware problem after all,
if your psu cpu video card fans are all working it shouldnt be an overheating problem,
if the psu fan wasnt working you would know about that pretty quickly lol,
if it was an overheating problem it would be more regular than restarting every day or two, it would more likely shut down every time it warmed up too much, which is at a fairly predictable rate,
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edit oh you done that already
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by the way you could have reinstalled a virus because its after that virus that your problems started,
so watch what software you reinstall and see when the problem happens again.
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tell you what
why not just reinstall windows and the firewall, antivirus along with your internet connection,
install nothing else for a couple of days and see it it stops restarting without the extra crap in it,
you want to turn off your remote services and telnet and dcom services as well,
they can be used to shut down your pc remotely as well |
solid advice. Also to add to the power supply fan failing thing, you're right he'd notice. I just had the bearings break in mine, and while it was still spinning, it wasn't moving nearly as much air as it needed for the huge load I have on it, and the smell of burning electronics became apparent realll quick. Though I've heard of people having PSU's run with broken fans for months before they died, so who knows. If it was the PSU fan though, it wouldn't cause restarts, it would likely just burn out and die.
If it was the CPU fan, it wouldn't restart, on any board I've had, it shuts the system down when it overheats, which makes sense, restarting wouldn't drop the temps much at all because it would have the same load on it again when it restarted.
Now that you mention it, it probably is a software/OS issue. Just make sure to backup anything important before you reinstall because it will delete everything.
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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It could be any number of things, even the backup battery on the mobo is bad.
I had this happen a while back to a older machine and it turned out after a while the on board sound went out. I started looking on the boards and diodes where leaking and stuff on the board. MSI board..
Also over heating of anything can cause shutdowns as well.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:45 am Post subject: |
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Ok guys i tried to read all what u sayd but i dont get all off it..
I tried to uncheck restart at system fail thing off, it worked the PC didtn restart.. it froose the screen 5 times, i had to close by hitting the button down, once a blue screen came, it sayd something about it had some fails, and osmething about Bios didtn get it..
So i checked Restart at systemfail agian, and now my dad used the PC this morning and he sayd he couldten get it start in 20min.. it kept freeze screen start, but he sayd after it restartet 5 times it didtn do after...
I dont think its a virus.. I think its the PC in itself. its a old crappy PC..
And would it help if i posted some more details? like how much ram it haves? when it was bought? how many times i fully re-installed whole PC u know when u delete the whole PC and isntall windows agian..?
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| by saying you have cleaned it, you mean the INSIDE, right?
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| slovach wrote: | http://www.memtest.org/
use it.
this is likely the problem. if you cleaned the dust and all the fans are working, i doubt overheating is the problem.
let the test run for a few hours (the longer the better, simple as that, some stuff might not show up for DAYS. even one error means trouble) |
get cracking on a memtest. I had an old P3 laying around that would love to crash and reboot and generally be a pain in the ass. Ran memtest, drove to quiznos came back and there was like like 11,000 errors. (both sticks ended up being bad arhgh)
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