Computer problem

[Black02Silverado]

Been having an issue with my computer. It is one I built, has a Gigabyte mother board, with a 2.4 Pentium 4 processor, I have 1 gig of memory from Crucial Memory in it. Here lately it has just been shutting down on it's own. I mean bamm it is off, no warning, nothing. It did it when I had Windows 2k on it, so I figure time to upgrade. I reformated the hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro. It is still doing the same thing. It will run for days and then do it again. Or like today I came home from work and it was off so I started it and with in maybe 10 minutes it shut down again. I opened it up and blew it out a while back as well, it was kind of dusty inside but not to bad.

Any suggestions as to were to look next?

[plainvanilla]

Been having an issue with my computer. It is one I built, has a Gigabyte mother board, with a 2.4 Pentium 4 processor, I have 1 gig of memory from Crucial Memory in it. Here lately it has just been shutting down on it's own. I mean bamm it is off, no warning, nothing. It did it when I had Windows 2k on it, so I figure time to upgrade. I reformated the hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro.  It is still doing the same thing. It will run for days and then do it again. Or like today I came home from work and it was off so I started it and with in maybe 10 minutes it shut down again.  I opened it up and blew it out a while back as well, it was kind of dusty inside but not to bad.

Any suggestions as to were to look next?

 

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A slight adjustment with a tire iron should do it

 

 

I have had similar problems that you just can't put a pattern with.

It almost sounds like it has to be power supply related.

The software and therefore and percieved virus cannot be at fault.

 

If you have a spare power supply, swap it out and then maybe recheck all pin connectors on the MB.

 

Good luck with it.

[Mark_in_Tulsa]

If its not a software issue like a virus then its probably something over heating like the CPU, or the power supply going bad.

[MCourson]

I would download and let it run Memtest for a few hours to check your RAM

 

http://www.memtest.org/

 

If it passes that I would see if I could find a known working power supply to test in there.

[PaulieK]

We had the same problem here at work on a few machines. In all cases the power supplies were faulty. I would change out the power supply as they are pretty cheap to begin with.

[LarryE]

power supply or cpu overheating make sure your fans are running, or add another.. they are pretty cheap

[blue2kzr2]

I've had a couple similar cases at work, all were bulging capacitors on the motherboard.

[Black02Silverado]

I installed Speedfan and my system is running at 25C. According to the gigabyte mother board book it doesn't get to an over temp problem untill 50C. I'll leaning towards a faulty power supply.

 

Thanks for all the help.

[Black02Silverado]

Just wanted to thank everyone again for all their help. I found the source of my sporadic shut downs. It was my Fellows battery back up. It is gone and APC is replacing it.

 

Thanks again everyone.