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It could be a power supply problem, too. I seen it when one of the power rails gets flakey the computer will do funny things. If you have another power supply connect it - you don't have to install it but just put it beside the box and then hook it up. If it works you have found the problem. |
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For overheating clean everything well - get rid of dust, etc. and then open the case and use an external fan to blow air in the case. |
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> From: Mrugesh Karnik <mrugeshkarnik@×××××.com> |
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> Date: 2006/02/16 Thu PM 05:47:49 EST |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Hardware issues, probably overheating, help? |
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> Hi, |
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> I've been having issues with the computer shutting down automatically. Makes |
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> me wonder if it's an over heating problem. The system (AMD Sempron 2500+, MSI |
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> K8M800 mobo, two Seagate HDDs, an LG DVD Burner and a GB of RAM) has |
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> developed a habit of shutting down or restarting randomly, no matter what OS |
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> I'm using. |
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> A few days ago, the system shut itself down. I pressed the start switch but it |
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> would not respond, instead the power LED just kept blinking. I thought it to |
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> be an overheating issue and let it cool off for a bit. It worked fine for a |
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> few days and then this phenomenon just kept repeating itself and the |
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> frequency increased. There were a few lockups in between too. This would |
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> happen when running and update world while running Azureus in KDE or even |
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> when I was doing something as trivial as just chatting. |
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> One day, the system refused to start. I pressed the start switch after a few |
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> minutes of such a shutdown and all that happened was I could see the power, |
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> HDD LEDs and the DVD burner's LED all glowing, but the monitor wouldn't |
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> start. The CPU fan would be working. I let the thing sleep for a few hours. |
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> Later, I though I'd just run memtest to check if the RAM modules aren't |
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> causing any trouble. The pc actually started this time, but as soon as the |
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> memtest86+ screen came up, the thing shut itself down once again. |
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> Next day, I had the system lock up twice while editing the BIOS settings. This |
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> time I decided to dig out the processor and take the board and the processor |
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> to the dealer for checkup. Turns out that the processor had got stuck to the |
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> heat sink. After separating and reinstalling the two, the system worked fine |
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> for a few days. |
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> Now, again, a couple of days ago, I had the shut down. This time I decided to |
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> keep the room as cool as possible and have been running the computer with the |
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> lid open. But then again, just a few minutes ago, I had the shutdown while |
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> compiling K3B while running KDE and Azureus. Since then I've put up ksensors |
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> to check the temperature constantly. It's showing a pretty neat 35C right |
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> now, running Azureus, Kmail and Kopete. |
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> Anyway, the point of this loooooooooooong emails is that I haven't exactly pin |
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> pointed the problem. If anyone thinks this is something other than over |
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> heating, please reply. |
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> Thank you, |
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> Mrugesh |
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