Computer randomly shuts down

GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
edited October 2003 in Hardware
Well, 3 computers down in my house in 2 days. IC_11 is looking around wondering what's going on (as am I)

To the problem - my backup/ETPC box (I'm typing on it now) is a K7S5A v3.1 with a Duron 1300. It ran all night last night folding, but now that I've moved it up to the entertainment cabinet (where it sits on top), it will run for 10 minutes or so and just turn off. No shutdown sequence, just turn off.

It did this when I first built it, but it stopped for a day and just started to happen again.

Is it maybe the powersupply? Or the mangling I did to the Duron when I tried to hard code a new multi into it? (I tried to cut and reconnect bridges to get a lower multi, but it had no effect)

Comments

  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited October 2003
    My first guess would be to check the psu first. It could also be an overheating issue, due to moving it, might want to check the hs/f to check for that. Do you have another psu that you could swap it out for to check the psu?
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    get a different power source...ie) different outlet, different surge protector. That happened to me frequently cuz of the surge protector was craaap...also try out the ram...thastll usaully make sumthing just shut downb
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Since you did cut and redo the bridges on that Duron I would swap it with the CPU that is in the other box that is down just to either eliminate or confirm that issue. I would also run memtest86 on the ram in that box to eliminate that. While the other CPU is in this system I would run a thermal stress test like Toast on high priority for at least 5 minutes and watch the CPU and vcore in Moterboard Monitor the whole time for jums and fluctuations. What ever you observe prior to shut-down will be most important if it does occur. Next, if the Duron runs loops of prime and 3DMark01 for at least an hour with no problems in the other box put it back in the one it came out of and run the sthermal sress on it. Between all this you will have singled out the problem. I am going on singleing out the Duron right away since it was altered and the system has not run right since then.
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Thanks guys, will do :D
  • SlickSlick Upstate New York
    edited October 2003
    Seems like maybe it could be overheating and the motherboard turns itself off when it gets to hot? Probably not but at my friends lan party his computer kept turning off randomly, then we couldn't boot it up, it would go through the bios but when it go to the windows boot up screen it would just restart itself, a never ending cycle. Turns out it was overheating.
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    Id move it off to its own power source to start with. I have seen this issue with printers plugged into powerstrips, home electronics draw large amounts of power, I would also move it, if its near the TV , to somewhere 3 or more feet from the tv. If that does not resolve the issue then I would try another processor as I read this one was modded. If the problem persisted then id swap psu's with another box and see if that psu did the same thing in another box that has about the same power draw.

    Gobbles
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