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| Fernando 2003-12-24, 12:24 am |
| Hello there, I hope every one is having a great Christmas, and may GOD bless
you all. I have a question provided some one can help me. My pc is
generic, have 512mb mem, and a Athlon processor but it just shots down from
time to time. I can be on the net or just doing word processing, or just
trying to defrag the drive and it will just shot down. Also, to defrag the
drive it takes a very long time, and it just shots down when defragmenting
the drive. Can some on help please..
Thanks.
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| Fernando wrote:
> Hello there, I hope every one is having a great Christmas, and may GOD bless
> you all. I have a question provided some one can help me. My pc is
> generic, have 512mb mem, and a Athlon processor but it just shots down from
> time to time. I can be on the net or just doing word processing, or just
> trying to defrag the drive and it will just shot down. Also, to defrag the
> drive it takes a very long time, and it just shots down when defragmenting
> the drive. Can some on help please..
>
> Thanks.
Merry Christmas...
I'm a pagan, and I worship the porcelian throne.
When I pray to my god, I contribute in the only
way I know how, and he accepts readily.
Only infrequently does he refuse my sacrifices 
But, in answer to your question....
Your power supply is dying.
I hope you have some money left over from Christmas
shopping.
You'll need to replace the power supply.
To not know is bad, to not *want* to know is worse...
---AFRICAN PROVERB
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| Navin R. Johnson 2003-12-24, 1:23 am |
| On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 04:27:33 GMT, "Fernando" <fernandori2003@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I've seen a few Dell systems and at least one HP with the same problem.
Turned out to be a CPU overheat setting in the BIOS was set too low. The
motherboard shuts the system down if either the CPU fan stops turning or
the CPU temp goes too high. If I remember right, the boards were
originally set to shutdown at 58 degrees centigrade, the lowest
available setting. I changed the setting to 65C and it solved the
problem. Although it didn't solve the poor air flow problem in the Dell
& HP systems. Dell + HP = CRAP.... IMO.... You might want to vacuum out
the dust and make sure all the fans are spinning.
Feliz Navidad,
NRJ
>Hello there, I hope every one is having a great Christmas, and may GOD bless
>you all. I have a question provided some one can help me. My pc is
>generic, have 512mb mem, and a Athlon processor but it just shots down from
>time to time. I can be on the net or just doing word processing, or just
>trying to defrag the drive and it will just shot down. Also, to defrag the
>drive it takes a very long time, and it just shots down when defragmenting
>the drive. Can some on help please..
>
>Thanks.
>
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| Syphillus 2003-12-24, 6:23 pm |
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"Navin R. Johnson" <TheJerk@optigrab.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 04:27:33 GMT, "Fernando" <fernandori2003@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> I've seen a few Dell systems and at least one HP with the same problem.
> Turned out to be a CPU overheat setting in the BIOS was set too low. The
> motherboard shuts the system down if either the CPU fan stops turning or
> the CPU temp goes too high. If I remember right, the boards were
> originally set to shutdown at 58 degrees centigrade, the lowest
> available setting. I changed the setting to 65C and it solved the
> problem. Although it didn't solve the poor air flow problem in the Dell
> & HP systems. Dell + HP = CRAP.... IMO.... You might want to vacuum out
> the dust and make sure all the fans are spinning.
I agree... sounds like a heat prob w/ CPU... I would look into that before
you dump the Power Supply..
follow navins advice...
--
Syphilus
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." Albert Einstein
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| dave hanson 2003-12-30, 5:24 pm |
| Fernando,
You are having a thermaling problem.....make sure the
powersupply cooling fan is working and not all clogged up with dust. Same
goes for the heatsink fan if there is one.
If your processor does not have a fan on the heatsink you
might want to get one. I am a big AMD fan, but their processors are know to
run hot. I put a supper heat sink on my Athalon XP and saw a difference in
speed.
"Fernando" <fernandori2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:VA8Gb.10326$Q%5.94@nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> Hello there, I hope every one is having a great Christmas, and may GOD
bless
> you all. I have a question provided some one can help me. My pc is
> generic, have 512mb mem, and a Athlon processor but it just shots down
from
> time to time. I can be on the net or just doing word processing, or just
> trying to defrag the drive and it will just shot down. Also, to defrag
the
> drive it takes a very long time, and it just shots down when defragmenting
> the drive. Can some on help please..
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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