PC restarting on it's own.

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Biffa Bacon \(mobile\), Feb 11, 2006.

  1. Capacitors of death.... ?

    Google badcaps and see if your board has any ?
     
    Biffa Bacon \(mobile\), Feb 11, 2006
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  2. Biffa Bacon \(mobile\)

    Cane Guest

    One of the PCs is restarting every hour or so. The check disk utility
    can't find anything and it's not a virus.

    Any pointers?
     
    Cane, Feb 11, 2006
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  3. Biffa Bacon \(mobile\)

    Cane Guest

    Blimey! If it's that I'll be better off just binning the fucking thing
    surely.
     
    Cane, Feb 11, 2006
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    Tim Guest

    Overheating?
     
    Tim, Feb 11, 2006
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    Cane Guest

    Good point. The fans are working but it's quite dusty. I'll whip the
    cover off and Dyson its guts.
     
    Cane, Feb 11, 2006
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    BGN Guest

    IN what way does it restart? Just reboot suddenly? Give a message
    from the system for a minute and then reboot?
     
    BGN, Feb 11, 2006
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  7. Biffa Bacon \(mobile\)

    mb Guest


    Dodgy power supply.
     
    mb, Feb 11, 2006
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    Cane Guest

    Heather just told me it give the 'Windows has encountereda serious
    error, do you want to send a report'

    Handy if she'd told me that earlier.

    Sounds like I need to repair XP
     
    Cane, Feb 11, 2006
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  9. If its an old peice of shit then yes !
    It could be anything causing it though.
    Its worth a lid off clean up. (Observing Anti_Static Procedures).
    Start with pulling all the Mainboard power connectors out and refitting them
    a few times to clean up any tarnishing.
    Vacuum the psu and other bits to remove as much fluff and dust as you can.
    Check for badcaps.
    Check all cards are seated correctly, sometimes worth pulling them and
    cleaning the edge connectors with one of those mildly abrasive ink erasers.
    Check your memory is seated OK.
    Is the heatsink "**** Me Ouch!" to the touch ?
    If it is then as Tim suggests you may have thermal issues.
     
    Biffa Bacon \(mobile\), Feb 11, 2006
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  10. Ahh, just seen below its *not* actually restarting !
     
    Biffa Bacon \(mobile\), Feb 11, 2006
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    Muck Guest

    Doesn't dust conduct electricity? Could be that... yes.
     
    Muck, Feb 11, 2006
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    Timo Geusch Guest

    Cane scribbled on the back of a napkin:
    Check if it's overheating. Sounds likely to me if it does it on a
    regular basis.
     
    Timo Geusch, Feb 11, 2006
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    BGN Guest

    It might be a good idea to start the computer in Safe Mode do a virus
    check, then do a SpyBot & AdAware sweep to see if that finds anything.
     
    BGN, Feb 11, 2006
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  14. The message <>
    Could be troughs in your leccy supply - are you on a UPS?
     
    Rusty Hinge 2, Feb 11, 2006
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    deadmail Guest

    This is not a good idea. If they've been gold flashed then the flashing
    will be removed soon enough and then you end up with bare copper which
    tarnishes faster.

    Sure it will fix a dodgy connection if there was a bit of muck on the
    edge connector but it will cause problems in the long term; which isn't
    the sort of thing that will bother a service engineer.
     
    deadmail, Feb 11, 2006
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    R obbo Guest

    More like dodgy owner
     
    R obbo, Feb 11, 2006
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    Molly Guest

    I bet you have.
    Try re-seating the memory.
     
    Molly, Feb 11, 2006
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  18. Well, back in the days of cirrus logic we cleaned around 20,000 PCI cards
    this way after the fingers were contaminated in a dodgy PCB wash.
    From my experience you'd have to rub a long time to remove the gold, this
    was backed up by analysis under a microscope and thickness measurements.
    Obv if you rub hard for 15 mins you're going to do some damage, but common
    sense should take over first.
     
    Biffa Bacon \(mobile\), Feb 11, 2006
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    Cane Guest

    Do you mean take the RAM sticks out and put them back again?
     
    Cane, Feb 11, 2006
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    deadmail Guest

    In my experience (from SIM Cards) where crap customer care advise was
    given by Orange "Clean the SIM with an ink eraser" it resulted in some
    SIMs coming back with the gold flashing rubbed off. Then again, I only
    saw the results and not the process which caused the results IYSWIM.
     
    deadmail, Feb 11, 2006
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