Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Hi all, My PC at home is really unstable. It reboots by itself at least 2 or 3 times every evening for no apparent reason. I have reinstalled my OS (win2k) again and it keeps doing it. Is there any way to find out what might be causing this? Spec: Asus k8v se deluxe, amd 64bit 3000, 2 gig ddr ram, nvidia 6800 gt, soundblaster live 24 bit Thanks in advance. -Marco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Cooling issue? CPU fan spinning OK? Anything in the event logs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 I'll check if the fans still work OK tonight. How do I check out the events log? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Control panel > Admin tools > Event viewer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Forgot to add this could be a fauty bit of hardaware or driver. Try taking one part (inc memory) of the PC out every night and running it to see what it does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Underated PSU? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Can you replicate when it does it, is it during a game a certain piece of software etc. Do you get any Nvidia warning panels come up saying low power - switching to underclocked settings ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 I would take the side off and se if everything including the CPU heatsink is gummed up with dust. One of my old ones would do this, a good clean normally sorted it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Underated PSU? My first guess too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Use XP disc repair console - command promt run chkdsk ah sorry thought this was a boot loop, apparently latest windows update has caused a fair few machines to do this. Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 Thanks for the replies. I've got a 400W power supply. It should be enough, but I'll look out for a more powerfull one. I haven't played games in a while, so thats not it. It seems to crash at random. I've opened the side of the case, it looks quite dusty in there, but not too bad. I'll give it a clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 Use XP disc repair console - command promt run chkdsc Rich I dont have an xp disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 well that makes it harder lol can you use tray tools and adjust temp that way on your graphics card? Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Thanks for the replies. I've got a 400W power supply. It should be enough, but I'll look out for a more powerfull one. It is not about power, it is about quality. If you just got this computer and it is rebooting - it can be power supply or fan on cpu. If you have it for some time and suddenly it started rebooting - I would say it is 80% cpu fan and cpu overheating and 20% left to PS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 It is not about power, it is about quality. If you just got this computer and it is rebooting - it can be power supply or fan on cpu. If you have it for some time and suddenly it started rebooting - I would say it is 80% cpu fan and cpu overheating and 20% left to PS. Thats interesting I'm taking bits out now to see what could be wrong like Daman mentioned earlier. The event log didnt come up with anything usefull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Hover at the ready Althou its not recommended Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 Hover at the ready Althou its not recommended LOL , no I use a little brush to remove the dust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 Strangly i don't. I find the biggest hoover i can find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 LOL , no I use a little brush to remove the dust. Just use hoover I would apply some thermal paste on CPU just in case and then test computer again under heavy load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 To check your CPU temps try something like coretemp. http://www.thecoolest.zerobrains.com/CoreTemp/ Try running some stress test software whilst watching the temps. I can't remember a name of a decent one at the moment.. [edit] Othos will do it! http://sp2004.fre3.com/beta/beta2.htm It'll tell you if your fan is under performing without the hassle of taking it off (which can be a pain on those if really tight). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 Thanks Pete. I ran Orthos and it came up with an error: Launching 1 thread... 1:Using CPU #0 1:Beginning a continuous self-test to check your computer. 1:Press Stop to end this test. 1:Test 1, 4000 Lucas-Lehmer iterations of M19922945 using 1024K FFT length. 1:FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4 1:Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file. 1:Torture Test ran 3 minutes 19 seconds - 1 errors, 0 warnings. 1:Execution halted. Don't know what it means though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 If it detected your CPU correctly, it might say you've got a dodgy cpu? I'm not sure if AMD still make testing software for CPUs to determine if they're ok, but that would be my next step. It may just be Orthos having a fit...worked OK on my Duo Core, but that doesn't mean anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 I'll see if I can find some AMD software. Good news is that my PC hasnt crashed in a while now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konrad Posted April 25, 2007 Share Posted April 25, 2007 What in stress.txt file then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted April 25, 2007 Author Share Posted April 25, 2007 What in stress.txt file then? There wasnt a stress.txt, dont know why it says that tbh... Just a splog.txt, and it had that info in it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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