Computer shuts down suddenly .

[jholt]

I suspect it is hardware overheating. I have two fans in
it. The graphics card generates a lot of heat. I have an
ASUS A7V8X motherboard with an AMD 2100+ and an ASUS
V8460 Series Graphics Card Ti4200 chip.

Is this definitely a hardware problem? XP gives no
warning, it just stops and my monitor (not XP) tells me 5
sec to shutdow. Seems clear it is a hardware shutdown,
probably due to overheating?

Thoughts?

Jeff

 

[BigJIm]

easy way to find out if it is heat related if to open the case and direct a
small house fan on the components

 

[Rob Lawrence]

Try downloading a temperature application.

Speedfan is a nice simple and effective one.

Boot up and keep an eye on the cpu temperature. You can
even set an alarm if you want to know if it, say goes
above 50c.

If the cpu is overheating, you might want to look to more
effective cooling/better heatsink etc.

Could just be that you don't have the original heatsink
in place correctly, or not enuogh/too much thermal
compound.

Le me know what it turned out to be!

Rob.

 

[Donald Link]

Have you tried removing the case and mabey even runnig a fan near it.
Hopefully, you are working in air conditioning. Also, do you have a large
enough power supply and a good fan on the cpu. I read somewhere the the cpu
and fan should have a good sealent to help to remove the heat from the CPU.
A couple of other poster in the newsgroup mentioned that the fan on their
video stopped working and cause similiar problem.

 

[Indigo]

Try this: Open your case and look at the fan on your
power supply. I'm willing to bet it doesn't move when the
system is running.

Replace your power supply and you won't have this problem
any more.

Pax,
Indigo

 

[Peter]

Hi,

Since you use Asus mobo and display card, you can go to
asus.com to download the latest Asus Probe utility for the
monitoring of your PC or install the Asus Probe utility
from the CD that came with the mobo. But it can only
monitor the temperature of your mobo, CPU and ATX power
pack, not for the vedio card. CPU, Power pack, Vedio card
and harddisk are the main source of producing heat.
Meanwhile, open the case and blow with your household fan
then try to re-start the PC.

May be you can also consider to buy a case that with LCD
temperature display, around 50 dollars.

Hope no permanent damages have been made to the hardwares.

Good luck.

Peter

 

[Jeff]

Well, I was having the same problems and that is what I
thought. But come to find out I needed to update my
video drivers. Also if you go to mycomputer - control
panel - system - goto advance tab then startup and
recovery and uncheck automatic restart, this will make xp
dislpay the error code, but it will not stop it from
crashing. Once you have the error look it up or post it
someone will be able to help.


Jeff