Pc Shuts Down All By Itself - Page 2

AnneJay · #11 7th Jan 03, 02:12 AM

@lickablepig

Tried your suggestion, and unfortunately this morning I ended up with the "black screen of death", meaning there was nothing - no error, nothing. The power was on but that was it, so it managed to shut itself off again. Does this sound bad?

lickablepig · #12 7th Jan 03, 02:32 AM

um, sounds like a housecall...

do u run the restroe feature?

are u getting stop errors or exceptions?

Was it ever running stable after install?

k, teh more nfo u have easier it is for sum1 to help, /diagnose..

ie: what are u doing jus b4 it restarts?

Is it going into standby mode...? clear spot desktop, rightclick properties, screensaver "energy saving features of monitor" settings " 'power schemes' is there sumting in there you can change so it will not go in standby? (if infact that was the issue), dunno, jus taking a wild shot at it...

if u were running with restore on u could try "last known good"

richardc2000 · #13 7th Jan 03, 03:13 AM

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um, sounds like a housecall...

Hmm- I wonder if protecteur makes housecalls near Lansdowne. :P

Sephiroth · #14 7th Jan 03, 05:28 AM

i'm going to say the PSU too, modern athlon and intel motherboards / cpu's need at least 250 to 300 watts to run properly, and then you have to be able to power your drives, your pci cards, your agp video card (if yours is agp), etc.... if you only have a 250 watt psu, you're really stretching for power, the motherboard and cpu are using most of it and not leaving enough at all for the rest of the system...

AnneJay · #15 8th Jan 03, 08:17 AM

@cactus
thanks for your suggestion on the bios, will look into it.

@ lickablepig
thanks for your suggestions, but it wasn't on standby, but like the idea of a housecall.. that would probably help alot. Have tried the last known config, it doesn't work, have tried a system restore, didn't work either. Am going to try reinstalling the OS.

@Sephiroth
Thank you for the information on the power supply. Am considering installing a 300 Watt PS; hey, how hard can it be?

Anne

James55 · #16 8th Jan 03, 09:50 PM

I had a gateway that used to reboot at random all by it self and even gateway couldnt find out why.

ernest · #17 9th Jan 03, 12:30 PM

I had a simular problem,machine would just reboot without any warning even when doing nothing,sometimes repeaterly.,totaly randomly.I tried the motherboard in another system increased the CPU cooling,etc it made no difference.I assumed there there was some sort of intermittant fault on the motherboard. I have now bought a second hand replacement and this is working fine no matter what I throw at it.

TheCrossMovement · #18 14th Jan 03, 04:27 AM

My PC is also shutting itself off on its own. I'll walk away for 30 or so min and come back to find it completely off. Attempting to turn it back on does NO good until I pull the power cord and wait 10 seca and put it back in, and THAN it turns on. What do you think is most likely the cause of this and how can I resolve it?? Would re-install the OS do any good? Am running an Hp Pavilion with 500Mhz, 256MB of ram, 10GB HD, and Windows XP Home Edition. Plz reply asap.! Thanks

TCM

Alpine · #19 14th Jan 03, 04:07 PM

I add this prob too last year ( with XP SP1 )

By doing some hardware test first .... i found that was a stick of 256DDR memory that was making me reboot automaticly each 20, 30 or 40 mins !!

So remove it .. and then no prob ....

I have test this memory on other PC .. and faq ...... this stick of memory werk fine !!

Anyway !!

HotRod · #20 14th Jan 03, 07:47 PM

Just recovering from this same thing. After a new Power Supply, 2 bad sticks of memory and loosing all data on 4 HD's I wish you luck getting it figured out. If you are getting different error codes with every BSOD I would guess the memory. That's how mine started. Thought PS at first, replaced it and didn't correct a thing. Pulled all memory out and put in 1 at a time. 1 stick gave error beeps, another stick booted fine until it went into windows, started, BSOD, with a different error code, (would be flopy, disk, memory, page fault, ect..) Think I saw every message trying to figure it out. Doesn't help had to do this with 2 processors. (run a dual, had to check processors too). Cheapest thing to strart with is the PS, but if still have the problem, next would be to check the memory.

Good Luck
HotRod