[SWLUG] Help!

[Mark Fisher]

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On Tuesday 06 May 2003 2:20 pm, Davage, Marcus wrote:

> 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.

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Mark Fisher

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