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Posted by bass drive on Jan-08-2006 08:40:

help pls: pc restarts by it self

Hi guys

I don't know what happened with my computer. it started to restart by it self. no msg no nothing. it's like the power went off and on in a sec.

do you think this can be caused by a virus or it's a hardware probelm?

Posted by Ang ' ela_ie on Jan-08-2006 08:41:

Microsoft update?

Posted by bass drive on Jan-08-2006 08:45:

I don't think so. it did this like 3 times in 15 mins.
yesterday there was nothing wrong with it

Posted by Masonious on Jan-08-2006 08:46:

Re: help pls: pc restarts by it self

quote:
Originally posted by bass drive
Hi guys

I don't know what happened with my computer. it started to restart by it self. no msg no nothing. it's like the power went off and on in a sec.

do you think this can be caused by a virus or it's a hardware probelm?

It probably has something to do with technology. You should get your technology inspected.

Posted by makija on Jan-08-2006 09:02:

check your powersupply ... i had same problem and my supply died so no cooling to cpu might get costy check that

Posted by maxstradamus on Jan-08-2006 09:22:

did you check your event viewer for logs?

Posted by BTG on Jan-08-2006 09:24:

take off the side pannel.

Posted by RandomGirl on Jan-08-2006 09:35:

Bet any money it's your power supply, or you are having over heating probs.

Posted by trewqy on Jan-08-2006 09:43:

It probably doesnt have any air supply.

Blast some old air supply tunes and she'll be up and about in a sec!

Posted by BTG on Jan-08-2006 09:47:

before you do anything drastic like get buy a new psu, see if taking off the side pannels work.

Posted by Masonious on Jan-08-2006 09:56:

quote:
Originally posted by BTG
before you do anything drastic like get buy a new psu, see if taking off the side pannels work.

pannels rhymes with flannels

Posted by DarkAngel on Jan-08-2006 10:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Theresa
Bet any money it's your power supply, or you are having over heating probs.

I had overheating issues myself so this is a definte possibility.

Posted by bass drive on Jan-08-2006 10:56:

ok i had the probelm since my last post.
it resetarted my pc but when it switched on, the power goes on, but I didn't get the start screen (first screen with pc specs)

after like /12 an hour, the computer starts again normal (probably gonna restart soon)

this is power supply right?

am a noob with computers so please keep the language simple

Posted by {b.s.e.} on Jan-08-2006 11:04:

smash it

Posted by Grrrrr on Jan-08-2006 14:23:

quote:
Originally posted by bass drive
ok i had the probelm since my last post.
it resetarted my pc but when it switched on, the power goes on, but I didn't get the start screen (first screen with pc specs)

after like /12 an hour, the computer starts again normal (probably gonna restart soon)

this is power supply right?

am a noob with computers so please keep the language simple

Did you take off the side panel like some suggested? If you do that and it solves the problem then it's restarting because of an overheating problem (stick a case fan or 2 in) if not then it's more likely your psu that's the problem

Posted by noikeee on Jan-08-2006 14:26:

it's haunted

Posted by bass drive on Jan-09-2006 07:39:

the probelm turned out to be in one messed ram chip (incase someone faces the same problem later...)

Posted by Boomer187 on Jan-09-2006 07:49:

yea, I usually take off the side panel and check all the fans to make sure they are running. Smell for burning. Then switch out RAM chips if you can and see if that solves it.

I kept getting this crazy error on mine. It would start up but a few seconds into it woudl stop and an alarm sound would go off. Ends up being a warning that my cpu heatsink fan was dying. I replaced it and all is good.