Random shut-downs

arson_nick · February 3rd, 2004

Just this week, Windows started to randomly shut down on me. It hasn't yet happened while I've been around, only presumably after it shuts off the monitor, so unfortunately I can't put a time on it, though it has stayed on for as long as 7 or 8 hours, and sometimes as short as 1 hour or maybe less. I ran a virus scan and ad-aware and found nothing. Nothing unusual in the power management options, all of the temps are okay. Nothing else on the power strip shuts off, just the computer. I'm baffled, thanks for any help.

Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0
Athlon XP 2500+
350W Codegen PSU
512MB PC2700 RAM

**Xie** · February 3rd, 2004

do you have auto reboot on error turned off in xp so you can see the BSOD msg? if your not getting BSOD I would first suppect possible power supply. Also have you installed any new drivers and/or hardware around the time the probably began?

Tweakfiend · February 6th, 2004

Looks like you have A Barton 2500+..... have you overclocked it?
They can reboot themselves without a temp hike especially if AGP setting is correspondingly too high etc .

February 3rd, 2004	Top \| #1
arson_nick OSNN Addict Joined: July 2002 Posts: 126 Reputation: 0 Power: 122	Random shut-downs Just this week, Windows started to randomly shut down on me. It hasn't yet happened while I've been around, only presumably after it shuts off the monitor, so unfortunately I can't put a time on it, though it has stayed on for as long as 7 or 8 hours, and sometimes as short as 1 hour or maybe less. I ran a virus scan and ad-aware and found nothing. Nothing unusual in the power management options, all of the temps are okay. Nothing else on the power strip shuts off, just the computer. I'm baffled, thanks for any help. Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 Athlon XP 2500+ 350W Codegen PSU 512MB PC2700 RAM

February 3rd, 2004	Top \| #2
Xie - geek - Joined: September 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 5,224 Reputation: 1730 Power: 175	do you have auto reboot on error turned off in xp so you can see the BSOD msg? if your not getting BSOD I would first suppect possible power supply. Also have you installed any new drivers and/or hardware around the time the probably began? tehgeek \| tehgeek \| geeking out to tech \| IRC \| Parted Magic \| A+ Certified Professional

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February 6th, 2004	Top \| #3
Tweakfiend OSNN Senior Addict Joined: January 2004 Location: UK Posts: 340 Reputation: 202 Power: 108	Looks like you have A Barton 2500+..... have you overclocked it? They can reboot themselves without a temp hike especially if AGP setting is correspondingly too high etc .