My Absence

friznit · Post by **friznit** » September 12th, 2007, 18:00

Apologies, my computer has been acting very strangely of late, shutting down randomly every few minutes. I'm trying to find the issue out (could be RAM, motherboard, heat or PSU). Until then, if I log in it will only be briefly on my laptop to change skills since I won't be able to do anything useful.

Hope to be back by the weekend, or worst case early next week.

traveyb · Post by **traveyb** » September 12th, 2007, 18:48

Hmm check that your CPU fan is turning, is it BSODing when it crashes? Try checking tempatures in your BIOS, your CPU heat sink may have come loose so try reseating it etc.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » September 12th, 2007, 19:06

Yeah doing all that. I thought it was RAM, but it's not BSODing, just shutting off which suggests either heat or power. Heat is stable, though a little high, and power seems stable too. I think the mostly likely cause, though I've never experienced it before, is the PSU overheating. Gonna get a new one and see if that helps (annoying, when this one cost £120 itself)

eRabbit · Post by **eRabbit** » September 12th, 2007, 19:36

Works well enough for 15 hours of WoW

*huggles*

Dolly Parton · Post by **Dolly Parton** » September 12th, 2007, 22:29

traveyb wrote:BSODing

what is that?

traveyb · Post by **traveyb** » September 12th, 2007, 22:51

Blue Screen Off Death'ing

Miro Mishu · Post by **Miro Mishu** » September 13th, 2007, 6:06

Dolly Parton wrote:
what is that?

And you say you work at NASA ...riiiiiight..

friznit · Post by **friznit** » September 13th, 2007, 7:47

NASA still use 486's and DOS 3.3 which doesn't have BSoDs

amblin · Post by **amblin** » September 13th, 2007, 8:31

bomberesque · Post by **bomberesque** » September 13th, 2007, 12:36

sorry to hear that Friz

My PC was randomly shutting down with no BSOD, especially when using vent / TS, about 6 months back. It was just after I'd installed a bunch of fun stuff (GFX, webcam, etc etc) so I upgraded the PSU. Sure enough ... it made no difference :/

Then I unlugged my webcam <strike>so no-one would catch me wanking</strike> cos I needed the USB for something else and presto, it stopped borking on me.

I still have no idea whatsoever why it was happening but as I don't use teh webcam anyway, I'm probably not going to bother finding out. The only thing I can think of is that teh w/cam had a mic built in and perhaps that was conflicting with the boom mike I was using.

Fear · Post by **Fear** » September 13th, 2007, 13:16

Have you tried switching it off an on again?

Oh wait.... it's doing that for you...

(Sorry to hear of PC troubles)

I myself are absent due to work still, no end in sight currently. I'll see you in Curse first chance I get!

Dolly Parton · Post by **Dolly Parton** » September 13th, 2007, 18:22

Friz is right. All processor companies got out of field testing their chips for spacecraft. I'll have to check but most are pre-pentium I do believe but will check.