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22nd Sep 2009, 00:35
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Hi
My PC turns itself off after being on for about 20 mins, it then restarts and manages to stay on OK then. Sometimes before turning off the monitor goes black a couple of times and then gets zig zag lines across it before ...the machine actually goes off. Have given it a good clean out, still doing it. Anyone any ideas please. I am on XP |
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22nd Sep 2009, 04:58
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Does the PC shut down and restart automatically or so you need to restart it manually?
Have you checked the power options in the control panel? |
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22nd Sep 2009, 08:20
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Hi
Thanks for getting back, most of the time it automatically turns off and resarts, it has frozen on the restart boot screen a couple of times and then i have had to manually turn off and restart. I think my son may have checked the settings, i have not, but I would be surprised if it was that as it has only been doing it for the past few weeks |
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23rd Sep 2009, 04:41
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Usually sudden restarts/turn offs are either overheating or a bad power supply - I'd give it a clean first and see if that fixes it.
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23rd Sep 2009, 05:52
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Hi Carbon - thanks
We did take the cover off the other day and got rid of accumulated dust with the vacuum cleaner. Since then, it has still continued turning off once a day, however, have been on it today for about 4 hours, and it has not, so I am confused, it seems you may be right, the cleanout may have helped, but maybe we were not thorough enough, is there a better way then using the vacuum, any specialist stuff to use and areas to get to? Cheers Shazza |
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23rd Sep 2009, 06:22
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What is the processor model?
There are various utilities that can read processor temperatures, but some only work for specific processors. That would probably be a good way to narrow it down.
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23rd Sep 2009, 09:38
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Not sure what a processor is, does AMD Athlon sound right?
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23rd Sep 2009, 16:42
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24th Sep 2009, 02:33
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Hi again, welcome to a new day.
I have looked at Core Temp, not sure whether to download 32bit or 64 bit, does that depend on what windows I am using? Once downloaded I will monitor the results. However, what I do not quite understand, if it is a temperature problem, is this normally the case when the computer has only been on a short time, yet it does not do it again however long the PC is on. Does it get hot straight away? It just messed up today after about 5-10 mins, doing its full thing, monitor flashed black twice, then coloured zig zag lines for about a further minute, then it did an auto restart. Cheers again Shaz |
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#10
24th Sep 2009, 02:43
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I say check temps because the best course isn't necessarily to see what's the most likely. It's more likely than not that what you're experiencing is either a PSU or (rarely) graphics adapter/motherboard issue, but the same issue can present in very different ways. To make it worse, if I go on what's most likely, you may come back and go "well I bought a new PSU, it's still having the same problem" and you're out money and still have the issue.
So it's best to,make sure one of the top three reasons this sort of thing happens (even if the symptoms don't completely match up) isn't happening, because while it may be unlikely in your specific instance, it's free to fix if it is the problem and it's easy to rule out. It does depend on what Windows version you have, though if you had a 64-bit version of Windows you'd probably know and it's unlikely you do, so just grab the 32-bit version.
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