| computer restarting? - Click HERE for Original Thread |
| JoeBlow |
| lately my computer has been just randomly resetting sometimes it will go for a few days no problems then others it happens a couple times in 3 hours. I am just sitting there searching the internet, finding music, games w/e, screen goes dead and resets. i have done virus scan and there is nothing, any other suggestions? |
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| PraxGTI |
Have you updated any drivers lately?
It could well be a driver conflict and/or issue with a piece of software you are running.
It is also possible that it could be from overheating, you might need to blow out the dust from the heatsinks and powersource.
It could also be your power source dying.
Lots of possibilities, start with cleaning the dust out, then updating drivers, if its still doing it then get myself, or another skilled technician to take a look at it.
Good luck :thumbup: |
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| BananaBoy |
See if doing these things help.
Clicky here
GTI is right, if you have not changed any thing on the system and it just starts rebooting at ramdom, it normaly heat or power supply. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Or if it's win2k or XP it's the automatically reboot on system failure thing.
Right click my computer -properties - advanced tab - startup and recovery button - halfway down is a check box for "automatically restart" uncheck it. You'll get a BSOD rather than a reboot, but with the erro on the screen there's a palce to start looking.
Also you can check the event viewer, it might tell you whats happening. |
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| JoeBlow |
| Thanks for the help i will try the auto restart first since it is the eaziest and hope that it works. If it ends up being the powersupply i have a new one already so won't be to bad either. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
| one way to test overheating/power supply is boot into BIOS and just let it sit there over night, if morning it's still in BIOS then it's probably a windows problem, if not its over heating/powersupply |
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| sparkycivic |
get "speedfan", it's free and tells you your temperatures of the cpu in windows so you can use the computer thus heating it up and see if it's getting into a dangerous zone . it has cpu temperature, and usually case temp and video card cpu temp.
sitting in bios, the computer will run cool. but playing a game causes my cpu to heat from like 35'C to 58'C in 5 minutes!! it cools back down to 35'C in another 7 minutes or so after shutting the game down depending if the room is hot.
some computers automatically shut down if they detect too high of cpu temps, and some just lock up, and others still just run slow on purpose when hot.
when was the last time all the fans were dusted??
or it could be your power supply. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
In bios the cpu is running full out because bios doesn't have an idle process.
The temp utilities only work on newer computers, and not all of them at that as they need the thermal diodes or whatever to be the thermometer. |
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| PraxGTI |
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Originally posted by sparkycivic
but playing a game causes my cpu to heat from like 35'C to 58'C in 5 minutes!! it cools back down to 35'C in another 7 minutes or so after shutting the game down depending if the room is hot.
Wow...I am a cooling freak so my CPU rarely sees anything over 35 degrees (Video card sees 46).
I have my bios set to automatically shut down my computer anything over 50 degrees CPU temp.
I agree with SilverNeonRacer, BIOS is the best place to monitor temperature and crashing problems, however, your system will not reach its normal operating temperature because excess heat from the video card/Hard drive/CD-Roms etc is not being produced...so even if your computer doesnt crash in the bios, it could be just because you arent using the other components that normally would be creating more heat. |
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| clapbak |
| how the caps on the motherboard? swollen / leaking? |
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| PraxGTI |
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Originally posted by clapbak
how the caps on the motherboard? swollen / leaking?
wow, if its the capacitors then its manufacters defect.
My 286 Still runs! lol |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by PraxGTI
wow, if its the capacitors then its manufacters defect.
My 286 Still runs! lol
Not really.. they can start to buldge and leak due to power surges and over heating. I've had 3 boards do it, they still work, just have to be careful.
I have a 386DX25 with a Intel CPU and AMD co-processor, it still runs, but had a short since day one, would cause the external AA's for the cmos to leak. In Microstation 95 the demo train would render in 3D faster than a P75 with 32Mb ram, and mine only had 8MB ram |
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| JoeBlow |
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Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
Or if it's win2k or XP it's the automatically reboot on system failure thing.
Right click my computer -properties - advanced tab - startup and recovery button - halfway down is a check box for "automatically restart" uncheck it. You'll get a BSOD rather than a reboot, but with the erro on the screen there's a palce to start looking.
Also you can check the event viewer, it might tell you whats happening.
I did this and am having error
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
so do with the USBport.sys
now according to windows i have no updates that are needed
i will do some looking around on google but any help would be great. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
there's a hex number, not in the brakets.. go to support.microsoft.com search for the DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and the hex number, hopefully you should get something..
Also you could go into device manager "uninstall" everything USB reboot, let it re-detect and see what happens |
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