88lx5oh Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 for some reason my damn computer jsut shuts down and restarts for no aparent reason. i would say every 30 min. especially when im using bittorrent downloading something. any clues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maro Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Driver issue would be my bet..... that will be a tough one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMeanGreen Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Bad memory, probably a leak. Try removing a stick at a time if you have more than one, or swapping in new RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wease Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Power supply... graemlins/nod.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tandm Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nitrousbird Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Originally posted by 00 T/A: Windows.That's just because there aren't any Mac applications worth using more than 30 minutes. Have you seen any errors prior to the reboot?? Try to keep a keen eye on it, something probably pops up prior to the reboot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathSandwich Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Originally posted by Nitrousbird: That's just because there aren't any Mac applications worth using more than 30 minutes.graemlins/thatfunny.gifgraemlins/thatfunny.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemosley01 Posted June 9, 2005 Report Share Posted June 9, 2005 Could be heat related to. Yank the case side off of it and point a fan into the case. If it doesn't reboot your culprit is probably heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street pilot Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 I bet it is overheating. Follow Larry's advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RdHondaSi Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Get Motherboard Monitor(or similar). As everyone said it could be heat or your Power supply.(Won't check each rail for balance though) Have it log your voltages and temps to a log file and after it crashes again, review it. http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ Makes sure your IRQ's are not in conflict. Some Motherboards have shared IRQ slots. Make sure that if you do have a shared IRQ, it is not something that is used at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritas Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 check your memory like anthony said, a stick at a time. If it continues, check for power issues. If you have a lot of hard drives/cd rom drives what have you, try unplugging a couple that are needed to test what the issue is. If after a while you do the same thing that you were doing with it rebooting and it doesn't, then it's a power supply. If it STILL does the same stuff, try the heat thing by taking off your case side and putting a fan on it directly to see how much it affects it. If none of those things solve crap, then start thinking hard drive. If you replace the HD and it does the same shit yet again, then your mobo is just going down the tubes but usually random reboots are the above mentioned. T.c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mensan Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Control Panel > Admin Tools > Event Viewer Copy the error received and paste it into a search page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stolen 5.0 Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 check the heat sink and fan on ur processor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bauer Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Could also be some sort of virus. We had something similar happen to the 'puters at work becuase of a virus. Do you have any virus protection and/or firewall software on your computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browning Posted June 10, 2005 Report Share Posted June 10, 2005 Originally posted by Stolen 5.0: check the heat sink and fan on ur processor +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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