Computer Randomly Turns On
Replies: 9 | Post Date: May 7th, 2005, 12:05 PM | User: Amoo3 | Forums: forums.devshed.comMy comp is possesed. (You would know if you have seen some of the other problems i have with this comp too)
So my computer more or less randomly turns on during the day or night. Sometimes when i get home from school it is on (nobody uses it, and the screen is like it should be when it first turns on)
Sometimes when i wake up in the morning it is on. The only partial logical explination i came up with is that sometimes when i turn stuff on such as my bedside lamp it will turn on. Im thinking this has somthing to do with. I dunno. A small surg of power going into the comp when turning the lamp off making the comp turn on. Only problem with that is that my comp is plugged into a battery. Also somtimes it will randomly turn on when i walk by it. Is my computer possesed?
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Computer Randomly Turns Off, Wont Turn Back On
My computer randomly turns off. It can run prime95 for 15 min without incident, and it can bit-torrent all night long, but it randomly turns off. Generally this happens while doing a non-cpu intensive activity like watching tv shows. After it turns off (as if it was unplugged, no windows shutdown procedure), pressing the power button does not do anything. Upon further inspection, the psu will not jump-start for a few minutes. After that, the psu will jump-start and the machine will boot up. To me, this sounds like a psu problem. I have a corsair tx750. Is this the likely culprit?
(Edit: i probably should give some more information)
Q9550 (stock speeds)
Gigabyte ga-x48-ds4
2 x g. Skill 2gb ddr2 1000
Corsair cmpsu-tx750
Radeon hd4850
Wd 640gb aaks + 1tb wd green power
Posted On: 07-27-2009, 03:13 PM . View 1 Replies .
My computer randomly turns off. It can run prime95 for 15 min without incident, and it can bit-torrent all night long, but it randomly turns off. Generally this happens while doing a non-cpu intensive activity like watching tv shows. After it turns off (as if it was unplugged, no windows shutdown procedure), pressing the power button does not do anything. Upon further inspection, the psu will not jump-start for a few minutes. After that, the psu will jump-start and the machine will boot up. To me, this sounds like a psu problem. I have a corsair tx750. Is this the likely culprit?
(Edit: i probably should give some more information)
Q9550 (stock speeds)
Gigabyte ga-x48-ds4
2 x g. Skill 2gb ddr2 1000
Corsair cmpsu-tx750
Radeon hd4850
Wd 640gb aaks + 1tb wd green power
Posted On: 07-27-2009, 03:13 PM . View 1 Replies .
Laptop Hibernates And Turns On By Itself Randomly
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Dell laptop hibernates and turns on by itself randomly. After a while of waiting when he's not using it, it'll hibernate then turn on again, then turn back off? Then, just yesterday, he got a blue screen with a message on it, but it turned off before he could read it. What could be going on? How could he fix it, if fixable?
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Posted On: 01-20-2010, 02:16 PM . View 7 Replies .
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Posted On: January 15th, 2005, 08:21 PM . View 13 Replies .
After putting everything together the comp was ok and it loaded into bios. After 10 mins my computer just shut off and when i tried to turn it on, it turned on for 1-2 seconds then it shut off again. It keeps doing it repeatedly i hear no beeps or anything. Ive assembled everything over again and no solution. The cpu has new paste between itself and heatsink. The only thing i find suspicious is that my motherboard as something that shuts it off if it suspects the system is overheating. I dont know what to do. Please help, any information would be useful!
Posted On: January 15th, 2005, 08:21 PM . View 13 Replies .
Computer Turns On, But Does Not Boot
I tried crossfire'ing two hd4890s earlier, but was unable to have it start (would not even power up. Would light up for a split second). I figured that my powersupply wasn't good enough, so i called it quits and removed the second video card out. When i tried to boot it afterwards, the computer would turn on (but nothing showed up on the monitor). (The video card had 3 lit led lights, and the fan was going at 100%) apparently this is the video card's own post procedure and the leds should've gone out if everything was okay and the fan would've lowered. I figured that there was something wrong with my video card, so i replaced the 4890 with a geforce 7900 i had lying around. I experienced the same problem (the computer would power on, but i was unable to get any video). To be sure, i brought my 4890 to see whether it was my video card and it worked fine on his computer. I then though that something went wrong with the power supply after we tried to crossfire it (seeing that it couldn't boot up with two of the cards in). My friend brought hist 620w power supply over today, and after installing it, i encountered the same problem. Although it doesn't rule out that my powersupply is the problem (i didn't test my psu in his computer) i guess it isn't likely that power supply is the problem. We tested the ram on his computer, and it worked fine as well. I dismantled my computer, and put it back together but still a no go. I bought a case speaker today (to hear any post beeps) but i was unable to hear any (which indicates that either it doesn't post, or that the speaker is broken or incorrectly placed). I tried booting without ram or a video card to force the post beeps. I've cleared bios (through the jumpers) and through taking out the cmos battery but still nothing. Edit: i removed all non-essential devices that i didn't need (cd drives, fans, hard drive) throughout the testing. Reseated ram, video card multiple times. Tried using one stick of ram. My thoughts is that the problem is the motherboard (with the cpu unlikely being the culprit, but this is just a weak assumption). Any thoughts? Is it time to rma the motherboard?
Posted On: 07-07-2009, 11:42 PM . View 11 Replies .
I tried crossfire'ing two hd4890s earlier, but was unable to have it start (would not even power up. Would light up for a split second). I figured that my powersupply wasn't good enough, so i called it quits and removed the second video card out. When i tried to boot it afterwards, the computer would turn on (but nothing showed up on the monitor). (The video card had 3 lit led lights, and the fan was going at 100%) apparently this is the video card's own post procedure and the leds should've gone out if everything was okay and the fan would've lowered. I figured that there was something wrong with my video card, so i replaced the 4890 with a geforce 7900 i had lying around. I experienced the same problem (the computer would power on, but i was unable to get any video). To be sure, i brought my 4890 to see whether it was my video card and it worked fine on his computer. I then though that something went wrong with the power supply after we tried to crossfire it (seeing that it couldn't boot up with two of the cards in). My friend brought hist 620w power supply over today, and after installing it, i encountered the same problem. Although it doesn't rule out that my powersupply is the problem (i didn't test my psu in his computer) i guess it isn't likely that power supply is the problem. We tested the ram on his computer, and it worked fine as well. I dismantled my computer, and put it back together but still a no go. I bought a case speaker today (to hear any post beeps) but i was unable to hear any (which indicates that either it doesn't post, or that the speaker is broken or incorrectly placed). I tried booting without ram or a video card to force the post beeps. I've cleared bios (through the jumpers) and through taking out the cmos battery but still nothing. Edit: i removed all non-essential devices that i didn't need (cd drives, fans, hard drive) throughout the testing. Reseated ram, video card multiple times. Tried using one stick of ram. My thoughts is that the problem is the motherboard (with the cpu unlikely being the culprit, but this is just a weak assumption). Any thoughts? Is it time to rma the motherboard?
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Made what turns out to be the mistake (though rather obvious in hindsight) of turning of my computer in mid restart, only to find that ever after it is getting so far as to power everything up and then turn itself off before booting up. The monitor recieves nothing, though is working. One beep is heard after the power is on, then machine dies. Have tried taking out all components and replacing them, have tried boot with barebones, same result. Had a similar problem when building it, was resolved by plugging one of the power cables into the motherboard. Cannot see anything like that this time.
Posted On: 29-01-2007, 12:23 AM . View 4 Replies .
Made what turns out to be the mistake (though rather obvious in hindsight) of turning of my computer in mid restart, only to find that ever after it is getting so far as to power everything up and then turn itself off before booting up. The monitor recieves nothing, though is working. One beep is heard after the power is on, then machine dies. Have tried taking out all components and replacing them, have tried boot with barebones, same result. Had a similar problem when building it, was resolved by plugging one of the power cables into the motherboard. Cannot see anything like that this time.
Posted On: 29-01-2007, 12:23 AM . View 4 Replies .
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Today for some unknown reason, my kids computer keeps turn on all by itself. It will turn off and a few minutes later it will be on again. It's done it about 4times already since this afternoon!
It's running winxp home sp2 soyo dragonplus motherboard w/amd 2. 5ghz
Set to turn on w/moving of the mouse or power button
Nothing has been added in terms of software or hardware
What's going on here all of a sudden
Posted On: April 8th, 2008, 09:09 PM . View 7 Replies .
Today for some unknown reason, my kids computer keeps turn on all by itself. It will turn off and a few minutes later it will be on again. It's done it about 4times already since this afternoon!
It's running winxp home sp2 soyo dragonplus motherboard w/amd 2. 5ghz
Set to turn on w/moving of the mouse or power button
Nothing has been added in terms of software or hardware
What's going on here all of a sudden
Posted On: April 8th, 2008, 09:09 PM . View 7 Replies .
Computer Turns Off Before Post
My friend told me his usb slots weren't working, and wanted me to take a look, so i did, his dad said he wanted to see what processor it was to see if it wanted upgrading, while i had the lid off, so i took it out, then i put it back, and then this problem occurred where the pc powers off after about 2 seconds. Help?
Posted On: 05-18-2008 . View 9 Replies .
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Posted On: 05-18-2008 . View 9 Replies .
Computer Turns On When Move Mouse
My mouse turns on when i move it. Just have to slide it across the table any my computer boots. I know it's suppose to do that when the computer is sleeping or hibernating. But my computer is completely turned off. I have changed my power button to shut down in vista. So the computer is completely off and still it boots when i just move the mouse or even the table a little bit, going to the bathroom at night and bumps the table, when i come back the computer is on and i have to wait to startup so i can turn it off. Any idea on what settings to change to fix it. I have tried to unchecked the wake up computer box.
Posted On: 07-26-2009, 12:02 PM . View 3 Replies .
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Posted On: 07-26-2009, 12:02 PM . View 3 Replies .
Computer Freeze, Screen Turns Black For Few Seconds Before Returning To Normal
The past few days my computer would freeze and then the screen would turn black for a few seconds before returning to normal. This happened whil surfing the web. I noticed that the desktop had a couple red and white and green pixel boxes that would appear after this happened. I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp. Got the computer running and the video seemed fine. I then installed my nvidia driver for my video card, and once i did that i started to see even more pixels and fonts became slightly distorted. My computer would then freeze worse that before, and it would not return to normal use. I had to uninstall the video card drivers for the time being. Do i need a new video card or could it possibly be a motherboard issue?
Edit: i downloaded xp service pack 2. And now my computer freezes like it did originally. I never installed the nvidia drivers from the cd. I'm not sure if it was included with service pack 2. But i have noticed some distortion of text. The problem is not as bad as when i had installed the drivers liek i mentioned above.
Posted On: 12-05-2008, 07:31 PM . View 3 Replies .
The past few days my computer would freeze and then the screen would turn black for a few seconds before returning to normal. This happened whil surfing the web. I noticed that the desktop had a couple red and white and green pixel boxes that would appear after this happened. I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows xp. Got the computer running and the video seemed fine. I then installed my nvidia driver for my video card, and once i did that i started to see even more pixels and fonts became slightly distorted. My computer would then freeze worse that before, and it would not return to normal use. I had to uninstall the video card drivers for the time being. Do i need a new video card or could it possibly be a motherboard issue?
Edit: i downloaded xp service pack 2. And now my computer freezes like it did originally. I never installed the nvidia drivers from the cd. I'm not sure if it was included with service pack 2. But i have noticed some distortion of text. The problem is not as bad as when i had installed the drivers liek i mentioned above.
Posted On: 12-05-2008, 07:31 PM . View 3 Replies .
Computer Turns On, But Monitor Shows Nothing And Mobo Doesn't Beep
Last night i got on my comp and it loaded just fine. After about 20 minutes of use it turned off. I've had random restarts before, but it just shut off, so i turned it back on and here i am now. The cd rom lights came on, all the fans in the computer spin (as well as the graphics card fan), and the mobo power light turns on. The monitor shows nothing at all (no load screen, no bios, nothing), the mobo does not beep, the restart button does not work, and when i power down the system and press any key on the keyboard the system will power back up (but once again, not load at all). I've tried switching the ram in every possible slot combination, but i'm just stuck now.
Posted On: 11-02-2007 . View 6 Replies .
Last night i got on my comp and it loaded just fine. After about 20 minutes of use it turned off. I've had random restarts before, but it just shut off, so i turned it back on and here i am now. The cd rom lights came on, all the fans in the computer spin (as well as the graphics card fan), and the mobo power light turns on. The monitor shows nothing at all (no load screen, no bios, nothing), the mobo does not beep, the restart button does not work, and when i power down the system and press any key on the keyboard the system will power back up (but once again, not load at all). I've tried switching the ram in every possible slot combination, but i'm just stuck now.
Posted On: 11-02-2007 . View 6 Replies .
Computer Randomly Shut Off
Certain actions cause my computer to completely shutdown. Occasionaly going to a blue screen and sometimes not. The actions that cause this include playing certain video games, watching videos, and other actions. Regular web surfing does not cause a shutdown. Somebody mentioned to me that i could have fried my r. A. M or something. I really have no idea. My computer is a p4 with at least 256 ram maybe 512.
Posted On: 06-09-2005, 12:00 AM . View 1 Replies .
Certain actions cause my computer to completely shutdown. Occasionaly going to a blue screen and sometimes not. The actions that cause this include playing certain video games, watching videos, and other actions. Regular web surfing does not cause a shutdown. Somebody mentioned to me that i could have fried my r. A. M or something. I really have no idea. My computer is a p4 with at least 256 ram maybe 512.
Posted On: 06-09-2005, 12:00 AM . View 1 Replies .
Computer Going Into Stand By Randomly
I recently removed the old 20gb hard drive i was using and replaced it with an 80gb drive. Installed xp, my drivers, games, etc. Without any problem (also installed sp2, which i didn't have before). But then my computer started going into stand by (or it might be hibernation, it doesn't actually say) mode at random times, even when i'm using my computer. Of course first i checked the power options to make sure it wasn't set to go off. Then i checked the bios, and reinstalled my mobo and video card drivers. But none of that solved anything. My next thought was it could be the power supply, but i don't know how to check if the ps is going bad. Any suggestions on what else i could check to solve this.
Posted On: 06-07-2005, 10:47 PM . View 3 Replies .
I recently removed the old 20gb hard drive i was using and replaced it with an 80gb drive. Installed xp, my drivers, games, etc. Without any problem (also installed sp2, which i didn't have before). But then my computer started going into stand by (or it might be hibernation, it doesn't actually say) mode at random times, even when i'm using my computer. Of course first i checked the power options to make sure it wasn't set to go off. Then i checked the bios, and reinstalled my mobo and video card drivers. But none of that solved anything. My next thought was it could be the power supply, but i don't know how to check if the ps is going bad. Any suggestions on what else i could check to solve this.
Posted On: 06-07-2005, 10:47 PM . View 3 Replies .
Computer Shutdown Randomly
I built my computer a few years ago and have had no problems (p4). Today it decided to shutdown randomly. I tried rebooting but it would turn on like it was going to start but bios would not post and it would shut down after about 5 seconds. My first inclination was that it was a failing power supply. Replaced that without any luck. The odd thing is that when i plug in both power components from the ps to the mobo it turns on and after five seconds turns off;
Yet, when i do not have the 12v 4pin plugged in, the computer stays running, although it does not load windows. I checked the ram, light on mobo is on, nothing smells fried, i'm hoping it is not the mobo.
Posted On: October 11th, 2006, 12:22 AM . View 5 Replies .
I built my computer a few years ago and have had no problems (p4). Today it decided to shutdown randomly. I tried rebooting but it would turn on like it was going to start but bios would not post and it would shut down after about 5 seconds. My first inclination was that it was a failing power supply. Replaced that without any luck. The odd thing is that when i plug in both power components from the ps to the mobo it turns on and after five seconds turns off;
Yet, when i do not have the 12v 4pin plugged in, the computer stays running, although it does not load windows. I checked the ram, light on mobo is on, nothing smells fried, i'm hoping it is not the mobo.
Posted On: October 11th, 2006, 12:22 AM . View 5 Replies .
Computer Keeps Randomly Locking Up
I can be surfing the internet or listening to music and my computer keeps randomly locks up and when it does it i have to switch it off at the mains and back on again. I have tried removing the cmos battery, reinstalling windows. I have also tried a new power supply but still it makes no difference.
Posted On: June 17th, 2007, 01:42 PM . View 8 Replies .
I can be surfing the internet or listening to music and my computer keeps randomly locks up and when it does it i have to switch it off at the mains and back on again. I have tried removing the cmos battery, reinstalling windows. I have also tried a new power supply but still it makes no difference.
Posted On: June 17th, 2007, 01:42 PM . View 8 Replies .
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I was using my comp all day today with no problems. I started up eq2, and was ending some tasks which i always do. Now my computer is randomly rebooting itself constantly for the past 15 minutes, making a beep when it does. Any idea what the *** is going on with it?
Posted On: June 25th, 2005, 08:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
I was using my comp all day today with no problems. I started up eq2, and was ending some tasks which i always do. Now my computer is randomly rebooting itself constantly for the past 15 minutes, making a beep when it does. Any idea what the *** is going on with it?
Posted On: June 25th, 2005, 08:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
Computer Randomly Restart After About 1 Hour
I recently bought a new computer which set me back a bit. It is still covered by warranty so if i can't fix it im still safe. My computer will randomly restart after about 1 hour - 2hrs. I have checked my error logs and i get 2 errors that are consistant. I have googled for help but i can't find the exact errors anywhere. I don't think its overheating either because. Errors are as follow. Error 1
Source: system error
Catergory: (102)
Type: error event id: 1003
Description:
Error code 000000fe, parameter1 00000005, parameter2 865e70e0, parameter3 10de036c, parameter4 852b38d0. Error 2
Source: system error
Catergory: (102)
Type: error event id: 1003
Description:
Error code 10000050, parameter1 ae078c20, parameter2 00000001, parameter3 806e9b9a, parameter4 00000000.
Posted On: 20-12-2006, 10:48 AM . View 2 Replies .
I recently bought a new computer which set me back a bit. It is still covered by warranty so if i can't fix it im still safe. My computer will randomly restart after about 1 hour - 2hrs. I have checked my error logs and i get 2 errors that are consistant. I have googled for help but i can't find the exact errors anywhere. I don't think its overheating either because. Errors are as follow. Error 1
Source: system error
Catergory: (102)
Type: error event id: 1003
Description:
Error code 000000fe, parameter1 00000005, parameter2 865e70e0, parameter3 10de036c, parameter4 852b38d0. Error 2
Source: system error
Catergory: (102)
Type: error event id: 1003
Description:
Error code 10000050, parameter1 ae078c20, parameter2 00000001, parameter3 806e9b9a, parameter4 00000000.
Posted On: 20-12-2006, 10:48 AM . View 2 Replies .
Computer Restarts And Freezes Randomly
I recently formatted my computer with xp and now its freezing and restarting randomly. I doubt that its a virus or trojan because there is nothing installed except the window updates. Before it restarts a blue error screen flashes, but it's too fast for me to see what it saids. My geforce 8800gtx idles at 70c, is that a normal temp? If you need any more info just ask.
Posted On: May 7th, 2007, 05:50 PM . View 7 Replies .
I recently formatted my computer with xp and now its freezing and restarting randomly. I doubt that its a virus or trojan because there is nothing installed except the window updates. Before it restarts a blue error screen flashes, but it's too fast for me to see what it saids. My geforce 8800gtx idles at 70c, is that a normal temp? If you need any more info just ask.
Posted On: May 7th, 2007, 05:50 PM . View 7 Replies .
Computer Shuts Off Randomly, But Infrequently
I initially ran it with an antec 450w smartpower (pulled from a sonata ii). By march, the system had randomly shut down a 2 or 3 times on me. It's just a spare system and isn't being monitored constantly, so i haven't been able to see these crashes take place-i would come to the system, and it would be powered down. Hitting the power button brought it back, no questions asked. It seemed like the psu was the obvious culprit, so i swapped it for the thermaltake around this time. It had been rock solid since then, running 24/7 without a hitch. However, this afternoon, the same thing happened again. Does this sound like a defective motherboard, or do i just have bad luck with psus?
Posted On: 06-13-2007, 10:23 PM . View 8 Replies .
I initially ran it with an antec 450w smartpower (pulled from a sonata ii). By march, the system had randomly shut down a 2 or 3 times on me. It's just a spare system and isn't being monitored constantly, so i haven't been able to see these crashes take place-i would come to the system, and it would be powered down. Hitting the power button brought it back, no questions asked. It seemed like the psu was the obvious culprit, so i swapped it for the thermaltake around this time. It had been rock solid since then, running 24/7 without a hitch. However, this afternoon, the same thing happened again. Does this sound like a defective motherboard, or do i just have bad luck with psus?
Posted On: 06-13-2007, 10:23 PM . View 8 Replies .
Computer Randomly Shutting Off / Crashing
I've been having a bit of a problem with my new rig. I built it about 2 months ago (thanks to your guys' advice) and so far it has been working flawlessly, except for one thing. I have been getting completely random crashes, like someone pushed the power button on my rig. I'll just be doing something and "poof" the computer is off. Sometimes when this happens it will keep happening when i try to restart it at completely random intervals. Sometimes it will run for 30 seconds, and other times 5 minutes. I have reset the cmos multiple times to no avail. Here are my specs:
Evga x58 sli le int 1366
Diamond hd5850
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Coolermaster haf-922 case
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Posted On: 01-01-2010, 12:14 AM . View 12 Replies .
I've been having a bit of a problem with my new rig. I built it about 2 months ago (thanks to your guys' advice) and so far it has been working flawlessly, except for one thing. I have been getting completely random crashes, like someone pushed the power button on my rig. I'll just be doing something and "poof" the computer is off. Sometimes when this happens it will keep happening when i try to restart it at completely random intervals. Sometimes it will run for 30 seconds, and other times 5 minutes. I have reset the cmos multiple times to no avail. Here are my specs:
Evga x58 sli le int 1366
Diamond hd5850
Seagate 1tb hdd
Coolermaster haf-922 case
Antec truepower new 750w psu
Intel i7 920
Ocz ddr3 gold 6gb 1600
*** Is going on with my computer?
Posted On: 01-01-2010, 12:14 AM . View 12 Replies .
Troubleshooting A Computer That Randomly Shuts Down
I am going to be troubleshooting what is causing my cousin's computer to shutdown randomly. Just looking for good ways to troubleshoot and what would most likely be causing it. Right now my main suspect is the psu, but i am still not 100% on that. The computer only shuts down when he was playing age of empires 3. Really the only game he plays, so i can't say if that game was the only one causing.could be anywhere from 5 minutes to a couple hours before it happened. I did do a few searches to see if it was just the game. I got a few hits (4500 on google), but it could just be people only playing that game at that time. I would find it odd if it was just aoe3 causing this too. Trouble shooting that i have done so far. I ran both orthos and furmark at the same on the computer for 30 minutes trying to see any over heating or if the computer crashed. I figured this was one of the most intensive test i could put on the computer. Nothing happened either. Gpu reported a temp of 75 *c max and cpu reported 50 *c max. Going to do a gaming session to see if anything happens next. Vga drivers are up to date. After running both orthos and furmark i am convinced there is not a heat issue at the moment anyway. I did not see any of the snow effect on the furmark rendering to show if the vga was dying. If the system does stop randomly on me i'll throw in my psu from my computer to see if the problem persists. Thoughts?
Specs:
Intel e5200 @ 2. 5ghz no oc
Asus p5e x38 mb
8800 gts 512 w/ hr-03 cooler no oc
Ocz 600w psu
4gb of ddr2 ocz ram 800mhz no oc
Wd 640gb black hdd
Windows vista 64-bit
Posted On: 01-01-2010, 09:00 PM . View 5 Replies .
I am going to be troubleshooting what is causing my cousin's computer to shutdown randomly. Just looking for good ways to troubleshoot and what would most likely be causing it. Right now my main suspect is the psu, but i am still not 100% on that. The computer only shuts down when he was playing age of empires 3. Really the only game he plays, so i can't say if that game was the only one causing.could be anywhere from 5 minutes to a couple hours before it happened. I did do a few searches to see if it was just the game. I got a few hits (4500 on google), but it could just be people only playing that game at that time. I would find it odd if it was just aoe3 causing this too. Trouble shooting that i have done so far. I ran both orthos and furmark at the same on the computer for 30 minutes trying to see any over heating or if the computer crashed. I figured this was one of the most intensive test i could put on the computer. Nothing happened either. Gpu reported a temp of 75 *c max and cpu reported 50 *c max. Going to do a gaming session to see if anything happens next. Vga drivers are up to date. After running both orthos and furmark i am convinced there is not a heat issue at the moment anyway. I did not see any of the snow effect on the furmark rendering to show if the vga was dying. If the system does stop randomly on me i'll throw in my psu from my computer to see if the problem persists. Thoughts?
Specs:
Intel e5200 @ 2. 5ghz no oc
Asus p5e x38 mb
8800 gts 512 w/ hr-03 cooler no oc
Ocz 600w psu
4gb of ddr2 ocz ram 800mhz no oc
Wd 640gb black hdd
Windows vista 64-bit
Posted On: 01-01-2010, 09:00 PM . View 5 Replies .
Computer Restarts Randomly In Windows 7
This problem i'm having has utterly stumped me. I'm pretty pc tech savvy and i've gone through all the normal means to solve/resolve this problem but here it goes. I have a newly built (and recently rebuilt) system using 'some' of the same hardware (hd, mb and processor are the same, everything else is new) and i'm getting a restart issue that happens somewhat at random. I'll explain somewhat later but for the most part, its completely random and i do not get a blue screen of death. Anyways, the new computer specs are as followed. Specs:
-Windows 7 home premium 64-bit (fresh install)
-Intel core i5 processor 750 @ 2. 67ghz
-Msi p55-gd65 motherboard (stock/standard installation, no overclocking)
-2 ddr3-1333 2gig sticks of memory (4 total)
-Geforce gts 250 1gb ddr3 (upgraded from a geforce 8600 gtx 512meg)
-250gig maxtor hd
*Description of problem/history*
This restarting issue occurred soon after i upgraded my mainboard/processor/memory combination. (I don't get the bsod) the problem typically happens when i'm downloading something, browsing the net or using the avg virus scan feature.rarely happens when the pc is just idle. Note: using large programs such as photoshop, playing games like wow or oblivion typically do not trigger this restart problem. I can play for hours perfectly fine. But i can do a cold boot into windows, open firefox and look at one page on cnn and the pc restarts after a total of 4 minutes being on. Now, when the restart occurs, it just blanks the monitor for a few seconds and i see the boot screen again followed by a "do you want to boot into safe mode" screen afterwards. On occasion, the system will freeze instead of restart causing the speakers to blare static/white noise (this happens when i'm watching a dvd, avi file, youtube video, etc. ) And a forced reset is required. I have taken the following measures thus far. -Occasionally the date/time needs to be reset/fixed from a sudden restart. I've replaced the cmos battery with a new one with no resolve. -I've had the 2 ddr3 memory sticks tested 3 times using the vista memory tester at system start-up. Tests came back with no issues/errors. -Upgraded the older 550watt power supply to 650watt ps. No change
-Brand new mid-tower case with 2-220mm fans and 2-180mm fans with great circulation.core temp is steady around 110*f no change (pretty sure it was never an overheating issue)
-Called up msi tech support (still under warranty) and we performed a main-board bios update (no resolve) and a few system tests and the tech deemed the mb to be working as intended. I'm looking for any suggestions/tips or retracing any steps that i have missed in my quest to resolve this annoying issue. One tech site suggested that it could be the hard drive causing these problems but several system scans report that there are no bad sectors. I've attempted to us maxblast 5 to make a hd disk image and transfer to new 500gb hd. Image was created just fine but restart/freeze occurs every time on "restore" process. 6 months ago additional details *update*
Forgot to mention, i've disabled the "automatic restart" under system failure option. I'm running win7 with current patches/updates. I've ran a registry cleaner and cleaned things up a bit. All no resolve. Addition bit of information is that when my does does suddenly restart, the boot up takes longer than normal as the boot text has to slowly detect each of my 4 sata hard drives. After the final one, i see for a mere split second a system recovered error message that i have yet to time perfectly with the /pause/break/ key on my keyboard. 6 months ago: aniceto* video card is brand new *2 weeks old* yet problem has been present on both old/new card for approximately 4 months. I did perform a similar suggest memory cleaning test back in early jan but as stated above, problem occurred on a brand new mb, memory, processor purchase prior to it accumulating dust. Thanks for suggestions, got any more?
Posted On: Unknown . View 2 Replies .
This problem i'm having has utterly stumped me. I'm pretty pc tech savvy and i've gone through all the normal means to solve/resolve this problem but here it goes. I have a newly built (and recently rebuilt) system using 'some' of the same hardware (hd, mb and processor are the same, everything else is new) and i'm getting a restart issue that happens somewhat at random. I'll explain somewhat later but for the most part, its completely random and i do not get a blue screen of death. Anyways, the new computer specs are as followed. Specs:
-Windows 7 home premium 64-bit (fresh install)
-Intel core i5 processor 750 @ 2. 67ghz
-Msi p55-gd65 motherboard (stock/standard installation, no overclocking)
-2 ddr3-1333 2gig sticks of memory (4 total)
-Geforce gts 250 1gb ddr3 (upgraded from a geforce 8600 gtx 512meg)
-250gig maxtor hd
*Description of problem/history*
This restarting issue occurred soon after i upgraded my mainboard/processor/memory combination. (I don't get the bsod) the problem typically happens when i'm downloading something, browsing the net or using the avg virus scan feature.rarely happens when the pc is just idle. Note: using large programs such as photoshop, playing games like wow or oblivion typically do not trigger this restart problem. I can play for hours perfectly fine. But i can do a cold boot into windows, open firefox and look at one page on cnn and the pc restarts after a total of 4 minutes being on. Now, when the restart occurs, it just blanks the monitor for a few seconds and i see the boot screen again followed by a "do you want to boot into safe mode" screen afterwards. On occasion, the system will freeze instead of restart causing the speakers to blare static/white noise (this happens when i'm watching a dvd, avi file, youtube video, etc. ) And a forced reset is required. I have taken the following measures thus far. -Occasionally the date/time needs to be reset/fixed from a sudden restart. I've replaced the cmos battery with a new one with no resolve. -I've had the 2 ddr3 memory sticks tested 3 times using the vista memory tester at system start-up. Tests came back with no issues/errors. -Upgraded the older 550watt power supply to 650watt ps. No change
-Brand new mid-tower case with 2-220mm fans and 2-180mm fans with great circulation.core temp is steady around 110*f no change (pretty sure it was never an overheating issue)
-Called up msi tech support (still under warranty) and we performed a main-board bios update (no resolve) and a few system tests and the tech deemed the mb to be working as intended. I'm looking for any suggestions/tips or retracing any steps that i have missed in my quest to resolve this annoying issue. One tech site suggested that it could be the hard drive causing these problems but several system scans report that there are no bad sectors. I've attempted to us maxblast 5 to make a hd disk image and transfer to new 500gb hd. Image was created just fine but restart/freeze occurs every time on "restore" process. 6 months ago additional details *update*
Forgot to mention, i've disabled the "automatic restart" under system failure option. I'm running win7 with current patches/updates. I've ran a registry cleaner and cleaned things up a bit. All no resolve. Addition bit of information is that when my does does suddenly restart, the boot up takes longer than normal as the boot text has to slowly detect each of my 4 sata hard drives. After the final one, i see for a mere split second a system recovered error message that i have yet to time perfectly with the /pause/break/ key on my keyboard. 6 months ago: aniceto* video card is brand new *2 weeks old* yet problem has been present on both old/new card for approximately 4 months. I did perform a similar suggest memory cleaning test back in early jan but as stated above, problem occurred on a brand new mb, memory, processor purchase prior to it accumulating dust. Thanks for suggestions, got any more?
Posted On: Unknown . View 2 Replies .
Computer Randomly Restart During Games
While playing games such as call of duty 4 and world in conflict i can play for about 5 mins to 30 mins then my computer would randomly shut off and restart. The weird thing is that it plays fine in other games like crysis on high graphics and i can play for hours and have no problems. The cpu temperature is about 50-60c while playing and the gpu is about 70-80 does anyone know what the problem may be?
Specifications:
3. 00 ghz intel core 2 duo
Ati radeon hd3870x2
4gb ddr3 ram
500gb hard driver
Asus p5e3 mobo
650w power supply
Windows vista 64 bit
Posted On: 25-06-2008 . View 14 Replies .
While playing games such as call of duty 4 and world in conflict i can play for about 5 mins to 30 mins then my computer would randomly shut off and restart. The weird thing is that it plays fine in other games like crysis on high graphics and i can play for hours and have no problems. The cpu temperature is about 50-60c while playing and the gpu is about 70-80 does anyone know what the problem may be?
Specifications:
3. 00 ghz intel core 2 duo
Ati radeon hd3870x2
4gb ddr3 ram
500gb hard driver
Asus p5e3 mobo
650w power supply
Windows vista 64 bit
Posted On: 25-06-2008 . View 14 Replies .
Computer Is Randomly Opening / Closing Windows
I seem to have a very annoying, blood boiling problem, my computer is randomly opening/closing windows, mainly windows media player and help (any help, depending on what program i'm using, as if i were to press f1). It also randomly types "-64" or that in different combinations such as "6444444444" like a repetitive keystroke. When these things occur my system sounds a high pitched bleep, as it would if alot of keys were pressed at once. It has even deleted text i have written, and i find myself having to copy text, so if i loose it i can paste it back in. It looked to me like a virus, but i've ran norton full sys' scan and no viruses were found, i doubted it would be a virus anyway because i reformatted my hard drive very recently and the comp has only been online for about 4 days after the reformat (only sites visted were google, gmail, ebay, microsoft). The reason i think it has something to do with my keyboard is because of the evidence i've picked up such as repetive keystrokes, key bleeps etc. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem could be?
Posted On: Mar 31, 05 at 2:43pm . View 2 Replies .
I seem to have a very annoying, blood boiling problem, my computer is randomly opening/closing windows, mainly windows media player and help (any help, depending on what program i'm using, as if i were to press f1). It also randomly types "-64" or that in different combinations such as "6444444444" like a repetitive keystroke. When these things occur my system sounds a high pitched bleep, as it would if alot of keys were pressed at once. It has even deleted text i have written, and i find myself having to copy text, so if i loose it i can paste it back in. It looked to me like a virus, but i've ran norton full sys' scan and no viruses were found, i doubted it would be a virus anyway because i reformatted my hard drive very recently and the comp has only been online for about 4 days after the reformat (only sites visted were google, gmail, ebay, microsoft). The reason i think it has something to do with my keyboard is because of the evidence i've picked up such as repetive keystrokes, key bleeps etc. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem could be?
Posted On: Mar 31, 05 at 2:43pm . View 2 Replies .
Computer Randomly Restarts Cause Of Cpu Temperature
Just trying to see what an optimal temperature for a computer should be. I came across a computer that randomly restarts, once restarted, it'll still work again for awhile, but then restart again. In the bios, it's detecting the cpu temp at 85 c (or 170-185 f) and the mb temp is showing roughly 40 c (which i figure is good), the cpu temp is what i'm wondering about. This is a p4 3. 4ghz running win xp pro.
Posted On: March 30th, 2008, 06:36 PM . View 5 Replies .
Just trying to see what an optimal temperature for a computer should be. I came across a computer that randomly restarts, once restarted, it'll still work again for awhile, but then restart again. In the bios, it's detecting the cpu temp at 85 c (or 170-185 f) and the mb temp is showing roughly 40 c (which i figure is good), the cpu temp is what i'm wondering about. This is a p4 3. 4ghz running win xp pro.
Posted On: March 30th, 2008, 06:36 PM . View 5 Replies .
Computer Randomly Reboots - Monitors Blackout
My computer randomly reboots once or twice a day. Sometimes twice in a row and that is that, but i noticed something strange that it only happens when i am browsing the web regardless of the browser that i am using. Now this could be complete coincidence, but it never happens when i am gaming as of yet. I also ran prime 95 and stressed tested my system for a solid hour with no reboots at all. I have left my system on for days and my system temps were all completely normal until while browsing the web for a few hours after clicking a link; bam reboot. I also went into system properties in my computer and turned off "automatically restart" just to see if there could be a blue screen, but nope. My monitors black out as if somebody other than myself went and hit the reset button on my case. It reports no other error, but that. I just reformatted and hopefully i will be stable, but i doubt it. Worries me that it only happens when i am browsing the web. Any advice or suggestions would be most appreciated.
Posted On: 11-19-2009, 03:06 PM . View 19 Replies .
My computer randomly reboots once or twice a day. Sometimes twice in a row and that is that, but i noticed something strange that it only happens when i am browsing the web regardless of the browser that i am using. Now this could be complete coincidence, but it never happens when i am gaming as of yet. I also ran prime 95 and stressed tested my system for a solid hour with no reboots at all. I have left my system on for days and my system temps were all completely normal until while browsing the web for a few hours after clicking a link; bam reboot. I also went into system properties in my computer and turned off "automatically restart" just to see if there could be a blue screen, but nope. My monitors black out as if somebody other than myself went and hit the reset button on my case. It reports no other error, but that. I just reformatted and hopefully i will be stable, but i doubt it. Worries me that it only happens when i am browsing the web. Any advice or suggestions would be most appreciated.
Posted On: 11-19-2009, 03:06 PM . View 19 Replies .
Computer Randomly Download Big Files
I have a windows xp home edition, but more importantly i have verizon wireless internet card. My amount of information that can be sent and received is limited a month. Ever since this morning my computer has been downloading crazy amounts of things. Yet when i look to see what it is in task manager it doesn't say anything is running. I checked the process tab and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I'm at my wits end. I'm fairly capable with computers, but when it comes to technical things im completely in the dark. I've ran avg virus scan (after updated which took 3 hours since my connection is being hogged by some other download) and ad-aware. Both found a few minor things that were removed. A back door something and a few trojins and malware. But it still continues to download insane amounts of information. I'm not sure if this is related, but whenever i try to play an audio mp3 windows media player 11 suddenly freezes up, but if it has nothing to do with said problem i can live without it. If it is somehow tied together that would be awesome. As i've typed this up i've burned 101mb's. 5 minutes and 101mb's burned. I only get 5gigs a month. Please for the love of yemma.
Posted On: 4 weeks ago . View 6 Replies .
I have a windows xp home edition, but more importantly i have verizon wireless internet card. My amount of information that can be sent and received is limited a month. Ever since this morning my computer has been downloading crazy amounts of things. Yet when i look to see what it is in task manager it doesn't say anything is running. I checked the process tab and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I'm at my wits end. I'm fairly capable with computers, but when it comes to technical things im completely in the dark. I've ran avg virus scan (after updated which took 3 hours since my connection is being hogged by some other download) and ad-aware. Both found a few minor things that were removed. A back door something and a few trojins and malware. But it still continues to download insane amounts of information. I'm not sure if this is related, but whenever i try to play an audio mp3 windows media player 11 suddenly freezes up, but if it has nothing to do with said problem i can live without it. If it is somehow tied together that would be awesome. As i've typed this up i've burned 101mb's. 5 minutes and 101mb's burned. I only get 5gigs a month. Please for the love of yemma.
Posted On: 4 weeks ago . View 6 Replies .
Power Supply Problem - Computer Randomly Freezes
My computer randomly freezes from time to time. It seems like when i multitask or access my secondary hard drive it occurs most frequently. Also, when i try to put in two memory sticks in the computer it does not work, but it only works with one (both sticks work individually). I have the silverstone zeus 850w power supply and the specs in my sig.could the power supply be the problem, if so is there any way i can check?
Posted On: 10-12-2007, 11:40 PM . View 19 Replies .
My computer randomly freezes from time to time. It seems like when i multitask or access my secondary hard drive it occurs most frequently. Also, when i try to put in two memory sticks in the computer it does not work, but it only works with one (both sticks work individually). I have the silverstone zeus 850w power supply and the specs in my sig.could the power supply be the problem, if so is there any way i can check?
Posted On: 10-12-2007, 11:40 PM . View 19 Replies .
Computer Randomly Shut Off, Needs Cmos Reset To Boot Again
To further explain the topic title, the machine (in sig) will randomly just shut off for no reason while it's on, or just "die" while it's off and refuse to power back on at all - no fans spinning, no post, no nothing, until i perform a cmos reset. Flipping the psu switch on and off does nothing to help the problem either. Whenever the system "dies" the clock in bios and windows will freeze and consequently display the time of death when i'm able to boot the machine up again. This started happening around monday afternoon. Current os is windows 7 since i ended up reformatting anyway trying to fix this issue - all of a sudden my legitimate windows xp claimed i had "major hardware changes" and thus needed to re-activate wga. I ended up installing a diagnostic program of some sort from at&t to figure out what was going on with m dsl connection at the same since that wasn't working either right before the restart that gave me the wga failure prompt (and i couldn't validate because of the dsl being dead at the time), and i'm certainly hoping that program had nothing to do with this. Last thing i was doing before that was just memtesting ram which didn't get any errors overnight. The red led light on the motherboard is still active as long as the switch on the psu is turned on. I can still change the clock in bios/windows after reviving the system with a cmos reset and it'll continue to work as normal. The time it takes to die again can be anywhere from 4 hours to about 20 hours as of what i've experienced so far. Only spare parts i have left is some more ram so i'll be switching that out now and hoping for the best, but in the event that doesn't work, does anyone have suggestions on possible culprits and fixes?
Posted On: 05-06-2009, 10:31 PM . View 6 Replies .
To further explain the topic title, the machine (in sig) will randomly just shut off for no reason while it's on, or just "die" while it's off and refuse to power back on at all - no fans spinning, no post, no nothing, until i perform a cmos reset. Flipping the psu switch on and off does nothing to help the problem either. Whenever the system "dies" the clock in bios and windows will freeze and consequently display the time of death when i'm able to boot the machine up again. This started happening around monday afternoon. Current os is windows 7 since i ended up reformatting anyway trying to fix this issue - all of a sudden my legitimate windows xp claimed i had "major hardware changes" and thus needed to re-activate wga. I ended up installing a diagnostic program of some sort from at&t to figure out what was going on with m dsl connection at the same since that wasn't working either right before the restart that gave me the wga failure prompt (and i couldn't validate because of the dsl being dead at the time), and i'm certainly hoping that program had nothing to do with this. Last thing i was doing before that was just memtesting ram which didn't get any errors overnight. The red led light on the motherboard is still active as long as the switch on the psu is turned on. I can still change the clock in bios/windows after reviving the system with a cmos reset and it'll continue to work as normal. The time it takes to die again can be anywhere from 4 hours to about 20 hours as of what i've experienced so far. Only spare parts i have left is some more ram so i'll be switching that out now and hoping for the best, but in the event that doesn't work, does anyone have suggestions on possible culprits and fixes?
Posted On: 05-06-2009, 10:31 PM . View 6 Replies .