This is weird and part of the ongoing power-down problem. It goes two weeks continuously. Then this morning as I send an email, down it goes.
On-off switch has no effect. Change the leads, still no effect. Leave it for a half hour, come back and it starts perfectly.
This has to be some sort of heat reset, doesn't it? But the thing I cannot understand is why it should just suddenly happen. gkrell shows cpu temps of 35. The bios at startup showed a bit over 40.
I did have a resistor from quiet pc to slow down main fan speed, which has been fine for a couple of years now, but on the offchance I removed that. However, given the latest crash it cannot really be that.
Looks like there is an i5 in the future of this case, which is a pain and not cheap either - by the time we get new board, new processor, and a proper shuriken cooler....
Can you think of anything else to try?
Al
On 04/02/13 08:05, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Can you think of anything else to try?
I did have something similar a few years back and it turned out to be the northbridge* chip overheating. There was no sensor for that chip but just looking at the board I could see some discolouration round there and on the reverse of the main board.
I fitted a small fan to keep it cool and it's been fine ever since though a little nosier.
* or is it southbridge. Any how it's a chip on the main board with a heat sink stuck to it.
Nev
On 05/02/13 10:46, Steve Engledow wrote:
On 02/05/13 08:18, nev young wrote:
I fitted a small fan to keep it cool and it's been fine ever since though a little nosier.
A little nosier? Is it a Microsoft product?
noisier :-)
Funny how the keyboard spells things wrong when I type fast.
Nev
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