Eternal Re-boot

humbertleehumbertlee
edited February 2005 in Hardware
Have an E-machine T2042. Recently it started to
reboot itself on its own. Its like you unplugged the
power chord and and plugged it back in. It can happen at
any time. Even while it is rebooting or when you are in
Windows XP desktop, etc.
I suspect the Power supply but am not sure. Help...

Comments

  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    First, turn it off and unplug everything, and open it up and clean it out.
    Clean it real well.
    It could be something overheating.
    This will also give you a chance to reseat the memory and cards and plugs for everything.
    Give it the eyeball, make sure that nothing looks dicolored or burned.
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited February 2005
    as stated before, a through dust cleaning can help out alot, especuially if you have intake fans that suck air into the computer Ive seen heat issuues make computers reboot, so make sure taht your fans/grills are clean of dust, and make sure that the hard drive isnt getting so hot that it urns you when u touch it. if you still are having rebooting problems, then i would check the PSU, btw what brand / wattage is the PSU?
  • humbertleehumbertlee
    edited February 2005
    This eternal restarting also happened to me
    back in November. On my own limited diaganostics
    I did what you suggested. I literally vacuumed the
    heck out the inside of the machine. Unfortunately
    when I finished and turned it back on I had damaged
    the 512 RAM I had I guess to to static electricity. I was
    able to restart with the original 128 Ram it had. The system
    was slow but did not experience the eternal restarting. I bought
    a new 512 and got it back up to speed. When It started happening
    again a couple of days ago , I did not think it would be due to dust
    and overheating. I will tell that this system is not in a airconditioned
    room. IT is in a room with ambient temp of about 80 Deg F
    I will try and clean oout the internals again, this time I will take out
    the RAM's first...
    Thanks... Will let you know...
  • humbertleehumbertlee
    edited February 2005
    Armo wrote:
    as stated before, a through dust cleaning can help out alot, especuially if you have intake fans that suck air into the computer Ive seen heat issuues make computers reboot, so make sure taht your fans/grills are clean of dust, and make sure that the hard drive isnt getting so hot that it urns you when u touch it. if you still are having rebooting problems, then i would check the PSU, btw what brand / wattage is the PSU?
  • humbertleehumbertlee
    edited February 2005
    I will thoroughly clean out. The power supply is the
    original 250 Watt from E-machines bought back in
    April of 2003
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    could be psu.
    are you sure that all of the fans are running? even the one in the psu?

    Be careful with the vac. That creates a lot of static. I pull cards and memory and then use a brush to remove dust.
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