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Thread ID: 120465 2011-09-10 05:29:00 Computer Randomly Shutdown icow (15313) Press F1
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1230156 2011-09-15 05:47:00 Shutdown again. No errors. Going to start looking at hardware faults. icow (15313)
1230157 2011-09-15 05:51:00 So it just shutdown, no blue screens? Is automatically restarted unticked? Speedy Gonzales (78)
1230158 2011-09-15 06:43:00 It never restarts itself. Its alls just like someone has turned the power off at the wall. icow (15313)
1230159 2011-09-15 06:58:00 Its either a PSU or mobo prob. It may even be a setting in the BIOS (you may have it on the wrong option somewhere) Speedy Gonzales (78)
1230160 2011-09-15 07:06:00 *always.

What am I looking for in the bios?
icow (15313)
1230161 2011-09-15 19:51:00 Get some temperature monitoring software perhaps and see what temps you are getting. Speedfan and realtemp are good ones.
Sudden shutdown is a feature of many motherboards when the CPU hits unsafe temperatures to prevent damage, but it has the potential to corrupt data and cause other issues as well.
dugimodo (138)
1230162 2011-09-15 21:12:00 And I have read that if a CPU gets too hot too often it can damage it which will mean you will get more shutdowns. Digby (677)
1230163 2011-09-16 01:08:00 I'm doubting it temprature. I can play games for hours on end and the computer has never shutdown during games. Running speed fan. Getting around 38 degrees cpu on idle/explorer. 51 in game. icow (15313)
1230164 2011-09-16 01:48:00 So, what mobo is this happening on?? One of the computers in your sig? And whats the model of the hdd thats youre using? Speedy Gonzales (78)
1230165 2011-09-16 02:42:00 Computer in my sig the one with the 460GTX. HDD is a seagate barracuda 7200rpm drive. Motherboard is a Asus M4N68T (the one that doesn't support the x6 phenoms). I just rewired everything inside to check that I wasnt a loose wire. Running a prime95 now. Get a message from windows saying that the gpu driver kernel failed or something (test has been running for 2mins and have got the message twice). Does prime95 even do anything to the gpu? main purpose of running the test was to check if it was the cpu... icow (15313)
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