[SWLUG] Help!

[Julian Hall]

My money's on a dodgy RAM chip or graphics card problem.  Those are the
two primary causes of spontaneous PC death in all OSs :)

Julian


On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 15:59, Mark Fisher wrote:
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> On Tuesday 06 May 2003 2:20 pm, Davage, Marcus wrote:
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> > My PC keeps spontaneously shutting down or rebooting. It doesn't matter
> > whether it's W2K or Linux (I have dual boot). 
> 
> OK looking at this logically it must be something both OS's are using if its 
> effecting both in the same way.  Are they on the same hard drive or different 
> hard drives?  Does event viewer and/or syslog give any indication as to what 
> the problem might be?  
> 
> > I switch it on, do some work
> > for a few minutes/few hours (it is totally arbitrary) and *click* it's
> > suddenly off, and it may - or may not - reboot. What's the problem? Is it
> > something to do with the power unit, or is it overheating? What can I do? I
> > built it myself two years ago with no problems before now, and I'm rapidly
> > losing patience/ideas/work/data. I'm afraid it's going to trash my h/d.
> 
> Do you have any spare hardware bits to swap out with, ideally everything from 
> power supply to ram sticks.  Ive had problems with 'pregnant capacitors' 
> before now, on motherboard and graphics cards.  Open the box up and check the 
> top of the capacitors [you probably have a couple of dozen located in 5 or 6 
> groups, they look like tall cylinders, ~1 inch tall] , the top should be flat 
> and have a '+' etched into it.  If its gone pop, or about to, the top will be 
> rounded and you may see a brownish residue/stain on the board underneath it.
> 
> Cant really think of anything else to try without more info tbh.
> 
> - -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark Fisher
> 
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