Power problems...or something

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I have a mid-range PC running XPhome, and have been encountering the oddest problem with it of late. Basically, my computer will almost never run for more than an hour without shutting itself off - in the middle of whatever I might be doing - and then either shutting down entirely, going into standby mode, or rebooting. Sometimes it will even begin to reboot itself continually

I have attempted booting from a setup disk, with the intention of wiping my hard disk and reinstalling the operating system, but the machine shut itself down before the setup process could complete. Fortunately, it didn't get to enter the phase of deleting your hard drive partitions, so my operating system is still functional. But my computer won't stay on

If anyone has experienced anything like this, please tell me what happened in your case. Any help would be vastly appreciated

Thanks
 
Sounds like your CPU is overheating, and your BIOS is set to switch off when
it gets too hot.

Or possibly your CPU fan is broke/dead.


PCpinhead said:
Okay:

I have a mid-range PC running XPhome, and have been encountering the
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oddest problem with it of late. Basically, my computer will almost never run
for more than an hour without shutting itself off - in the middle of
whatever I might be doing - and then either shutting down entirely, going
into standby mode, or rebooting. Sometimes it will even begin to reboot
itself continually.
I have attempted booting from a setup disk, with the intention of wiping
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my hard disk and reinstalling the operating system, but the machine shut
itself down before the setup process could complete. Fortunately, it didn't
get to enter the phase of deleting your hard drive partitions, so my
operating system is still functional. But my computer won't stay on.
If anyone has experienced anything like this, please tell me what happened
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in your case. Any help would be vastly appreciated.
 
Hi

I would consider the over heat problem, either the vedio card or the CPU
Try cleaning the CPU fan, vedio GPU fan and the chassis fans using a can of compressed air

Hope it helps

Pete


----- AgedTramp wrote: ----

Sounds like your CPU is overheating, and your BIOS is set to switch off whe
it gets too hot

Or possibly your CPU fan is broke/dead


PCpinhead said:
Okay
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oddest problem with it of late. Basically, my computer will almost never ru
for more than an hour without shutting itself off - in the middle o
whatever I might be doing - and then either shutting down entirely, goin
into standby mode, or rebooting. Sometimes it will even begin to reboo
itself continuallymy hard disk and reinstalling the operating system, but the machine shu
itself down before the setup process could complete. Fortunately, it didn'
get to enter the phase of deleting your hard drive partitions, so m
operating system is still functional. But my computer won't stay on
 
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