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| Thread ID: 45518 | 2004-05-24 11:22:00 | Computer Freezes every 3 hours or so | agent_24 (4330) | Press F1 |
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| 239043 | 2004-05-25 06:55:00 | ps - GF gave a good account of temperatures and CPU's and measurers recently - sorry cannot find the link. But rule of finger-upon-the thing isn't a good one - I can touch my kettle boiling away at 100C (I think that's boiling temp) and it doesn't over-excite my heat-buds. Also, static from bare finger upon CPU heatsink may also cause weird and unhappy results, unless you're statically discharged |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 239044 | 2004-05-25 07:10:00 | but it's hard to imagine it not needing a > fan for the CPU Ever heard of an i386? :D Mm, maybe - but the thing still works (apart from every three hours) as for the kettle, well mine i can touch, certainly but my CPU was nowhere near as hot as that... if it was it would have blown anyway.... an, no, my computer does not look like that... |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 239045 | 2004-05-25 07:13:00 | > but it's hard to imagine it not needing a > > fan for the CPU > > Ever heard of an i386? :D Sorry, my first PC was a 486 and even it fell over with the fan bumped off it's mounting. Didn't realise 386's ran Celerons! :D |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 239046 | 2004-05-25 07:26:00 | Lol well, no this one doesnt - but i do have an i386 that has not heatsink Or fan and its perfectly fine.... (well it was untill the ancient Micropolis 141mb harddrive died) |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 239047 | 2004-05-25 07:32:00 | Either way, here is the results of Msinfo32.exe: Kernel32.dll MSGSRV32.EXE Spool32.exe Mprexe.exe Mstask.exe Nprotect.exe Ssdpsrv.exe MMTASK.TSK Rnaapp.exe Tapisrv.exe Explorer.exe Taskmon.exe Systray.exe Navapw32.exe Mixer.exe Mgactrl.exe Hgcctl95.exe Rundll32.exe Loadqm.exe Lightning.exe Msnmsgr.exe Lightning.exe Wmiexe.exe Msinfo32.exe Also, the scheduled tasks: Scheduled Tasks: Norton Anti-Virus - Scan My Computer Every friday at 8:00pm Symantec NetDetect Every 5 minutes for 24 hours every day Tune-up application Start At 9:00am on the first Wednesday of every month Dunno what the hell the< B R > is for but whats after them is meant to be on a new line |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 239048 | 2004-05-25 07:35:00 | Ah well - if it isn't a heat thing on the cpu, and it isn't a software issue, then suspect the PSU - which is also a common cause for strange shutdowns - apparently it's not uncommon. Motherboard and hardrive are also areas to suspect. U have a difficult task to discover it - always made easier if you have two similar machines that you can swap pieces with. | Greg S (201) | ||
| 239049 | 2004-05-25 08:51:00 | My brother's PC rebooted after every few hours, though his PC didn't seize up on him though. He found out later that the PSU was the culprit. | aNtzy (4070) | ||
| 239050 | 2004-05-25 09:10:00 | heatsink wise is not a problem. lots of those came out with passive heatsinks, tho i di suggest a good case fan ;-) even brand new P4 system (eg DELL) use pasive heatsinks and a case fan shroud. if its crashing constantly at 3 hours then its more likely a software problem as hardware would be more random. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 239051 | 2004-05-25 10:35:00 | well, its not exactly 3 hours, maybe 2:54 - 3:13 or so, and it doesnt reboot, just freezes. Also, i do have a case fan. I would suspect windows myself, but im probaly wrong. |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 239052 | 2004-05-25 13:33:00 | >i think if you press enough keys at once it will beep, but i cant remember. The keyboard buffer will only hold so many keystrokes (16 from memory) and then beeps when full. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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