Random Restarts
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:44 pm
Hello guys,
Well, things have been going pretty well over here. Computer is running fine, and I'm looking seriously at getting a second 17� LCD monitor.
The one problem I have (well, there are more, but none so serious) is that once in a long while my screen goes black and the computer restarts. I get to error messages before or after, and the system seems to be stable otherwise. I am behind a surge protector, but other computers around my house stay on while mine restarts, so I don’t think it is a power fluctuation problem.
My restart button doesn’t work either. It either just clicks off the computer or gives it the “sleeping beauty� curse (where all the lights are on inside but nothing works). I don’t know if this has anything to do with it.
I have checked all the connections and they all seem to be good. Only thing that isn’t locked in is the power to my mobo, which is in all the way but the lock thing on it just doesn’t click for some reason.
Voltages are fairly constant and temps are fairly low. CPU is at 44 now. Inside air temp is 28.
It doesn’t crash when I do anything either. I'm not crunching the HDD or frying the CPU. Graphics was almost none last time. I was just typing and listening to music (lossless wma files). The music did the repeat thing (like when you uninstall an older program. Just repeats the last 0.1 second of audio about 5 times).
Thanks for your help.
P.S. my computer randomly boots up too. I think it is the wake on lan thing, but I have disabled it everywhere I can find it. Its a pretty rare occurance, but very werid. Shmithers thinks it is haunted.
Well, things have been going pretty well over here. Computer is running fine, and I'm looking seriously at getting a second 17� LCD monitor.
The one problem I have (well, there are more, but none so serious) is that once in a long while my screen goes black and the computer restarts. I get to error messages before or after, and the system seems to be stable otherwise. I am behind a surge protector, but other computers around my house stay on while mine restarts, so I don’t think it is a power fluctuation problem.
My restart button doesn’t work either. It either just clicks off the computer or gives it the “sleeping beauty� curse (where all the lights are on inside but nothing works). I don’t know if this has anything to do with it.
I have checked all the connections and they all seem to be good. Only thing that isn’t locked in is the power to my mobo, which is in all the way but the lock thing on it just doesn’t click for some reason.
Voltages are fairly constant and temps are fairly low. CPU is at 44 now. Inside air temp is 28.
It doesn’t crash when I do anything either. I'm not crunching the HDD or frying the CPU. Graphics was almost none last time. I was just typing and listening to music (lossless wma files). The music did the repeat thing (like when you uninstall an older program. Just repeats the last 0.1 second of audio about 5 times).
Thanks for your help.
P.S. my computer randomly boots up too. I think it is the wake on lan thing, but I have disabled it everywhere I can find it. Its a pretty rare occurance, but very werid. Shmithers thinks it is haunted.
