On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Emanuele Morozzi wrote:
Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
Hi,
I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes
me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI
K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has
developed a habit of shutting down or restarting randomly, no matter what OS
I'm using.
A few days ago, the system shut itself down. I pressed the start switch but it
would not respond, instead the power LED just kept blinking. I thought it to
be an overheating issue and let it cool off for a bit. It worked fine for a
few days and then this phenomenon just kept repeating itself and the
frequency increased. There were a few lockups in between too. This would
happen when running and update world while running Azureus in KDE or even
when I was doing something as trivial as just chatting.
One day, the system refused to start. I pressed the start switch after a few
minutes of such a shutdown and all that happened was I could see the power,
HDD LEDs and the DVD burner's LED all glowing, but the monitor wouldn't
start. The CPU fan would be working. I let the thing sleep for a few hours.
Later, I though I'd just run memtest to check if the RAM modules aren't
causing any trouble. The pc actually started this time, but as soon as the
memtest86+ screen came up, the thing shut itself down once again.
Next day, I had the system lock up twice while editing the BIOS settings. This
time I decided to dig out the processor and take the board and the processor
to the dealer for checkup. Turns out that the processor had got stuck to the
heat sink. After separating and reinstalling the two, the system worked fine
for a few days.
Now, again, a couple of days ago, I had the shut down. This time I decided to
keep the room as cool as possible and have been running the computer with the
lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while
compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors
to check the temperature constantly. It's showing a pretty neat 35C right
now, running Azureus, Kmail and Kopete.
Anyway, the point of this loooooooooooong emails is that I haven't exactly pin
pointed the problem. If anyone thinks this is something other than over
heating, please reply.
Thank you,
Mrugesh
1. Tell us the Watts of the power supply (perhaps you'll have to change it)
2. Take the PC powered off and try extracting the video card and
replugging it.
3. Try to change the plug you use to give power to the PC.
4. Try to discharge the bios and reconfigure it.
Add to this to make sure the line cord is plugged in well, both at the
wall and at the computer. I once replaced a power supply only to find
that the line cord wasn't plugged in all the way.
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