[Ham-Computers] Computer shutting itself down

[Dale Miller]

Dave Corio wrote:
> Anyone have any experience with a computer simply turning itself off
> for no apparent reason? I get no error messages, and no warning of any
> type. When I turn it back on, it comes on fine, without even going
> through chkdisk, as if it was turned off intentionally. This is a
> Gateway Pentium IV, 3.4 Ghz unit with 1G of RAM. No other signs of
> trouble.
>
> Please respond to dcorio at zitomedia.net instead of via the reflector. I
> hate burning good bandwidth for OT stuff.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
> KB3MOW

Dave, the one time I had that happen my cpu heatsink wasn't making good
contact with the cpu.
So the computer would shut down because of overheated cpu. You may have
to remove the heatsink and carefully clean the cpu and bottom of
heatsink and reapply some heatsink compound and remount the heatsink.
If you don't feel like  you can do this, then you should find someone
that can do this for you.



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