Random Rebooting
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My computer has recently become very tempremental and randomly reboots itself without warning, no little boxes popping up, no error messages, just turns itself off (without shutting down) and reboots 
Any idea what's going on and how to cure it, VERY annoying as I got half way through a piece of work and it rebooted itself
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Mr Brick, meet Mr Computer
TIA
Graham
Any idea what's going on and how to cure it, VERY annoying as I got half way through a piece of work and it rebooted itself
. Mr Brick, meet Mr Computer
TIA
Graham
Graham.J said:
My computer has recently become very tempremental and randomly reboots itself without warning, no little boxes popping up, no error messages, just turns itself off (without shutting down) and reboots
Any idea what's going on and how to cure it, VERY annoying as I got half way through a piece of work and it rebooted itself
Mr Brick, meet Mr Computer
TIA
Graham
my first things would be memory, and heat. mine hangs nicely or reboots if it gets too hot, and also did a whole load of "funky sh1t" when one of the memory dimms was faulty.....
rodsmith said:
Is your virus checking software current?
Yes
FourWheelDrift said:
Yep agree with TheHobbit about memeory, heat and things. I had a PC that did that and I all that had caused it was the fan on the processor had become unstuck and fallen off causing the processor to overheat and shut down the PC.
Ah, hadn't thought about that, the ambient temp in here isn't warm in the slightest. Will have to have a look inside the tower some time.
It doesn't seem to do it say after 5 mins, it'll sometimes be ok for 10 minutes, sometimes only 2.
Cheers chaps,
Graham
Graham.J said:
Ah, hadn't thought about that, the ambient temp in here isn't warm in the slightest. Will have to have a look inside the tower some time.
It doesn't seem to do it say after 5 mins, it'll sometimes be ok for 10 minutes, sometimes only 2.
Cheers chaps,
Graham
Certainly check temp and memory. they're always good candidates for the random "could be 2 mins, could be 10 mins" things.
If you have more than 1 simm/dimm/rimm/<insert other memory technology unit here> then try taking them out in turn, or running on just 1 at a time to test them.
remember to take precautions when ferreting about inside it too....
you don't want to cause more damage.....I've just solved a similar problem on one of our XP Pro boxes.
Turned out to be 2 dodgy strips of RAM (it was running 2GB - 4 * 512 MB)
The advice I got was to download the bootable memtest iso software from www.memtest86.com and create a bootable CD.
Run the test by booting from the CD with one strip of RAM at a time installed and see if that picks up any errors.
Turned out to be 2 dodgy strips of RAM (it was running 2GB - 4 * 512 MB)
The advice I got was to download the bootable memtest iso software from www.memtest86.com and create a bootable CD.
Run the test by booting from the CD with one strip of RAM at a time installed and see if that picks up any errors.
I've been having the same on my computer here at work and Graham, I'd agree it is really bloody annoying. :angry:
My one seems to have been caused by a dodgy network card, as the problem only started when network card went it (it was from an older computer so probably knackered as it is) and the computer worked fine when I took it out and used dial up for a bit.
My one seems to have been caused by a dodgy network card, as the problem only started when network card went it (it was from an older computer so probably knackered as it is) and the computer worked fine when I took it out and used dial up for a bit.
Must admit, never really been a fan of MBM.. try speedfan..
www.tucows.com/preview/226226.html
Should give you a good idea of what's going on without too much tweaking of settings
www.tucows.com/preview/226226.html
Should give you a good idea of what's going on without too much tweaking of settings
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