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August 22nd, 2007, 02:50 AM
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August 22nd, 2007, 07:52 AM
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Welcome to TechIMO 
Did you apply thremal compound between the cpu and heatsink?
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August 22nd, 2007, 09:49 AM
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This issue could be many things. You could have bad RAM, a bad power supply, your components could be overheating, etc...
Try re-seating the processor heatsink. Use thermal compound if you have any.
If that doesnt solve it, then spaw out your RAM. Take one stick out. If it continues to do that, then put it back in and take the other one out.
And if tht doesnt work, go to your local hardware store and pick up a multimeter so you can test your power supply. | |
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August 22nd, 2007, 10:26 AM
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You don't mention if you have any parts like the RAM or a spare PSU that you could swap out till you find the culprit.
You do seem to have picked good brands instead of the usual crapola I see a lot of so hopefully its just something not seated properly in a slot or some other nice and simple thing like that.
Just out of interest, can you get into the BIOS setup and have it not crash, or does it screw up in there as well? | |
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August 22nd, 2007, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by zybch  You don't mention if you have any parts like the RAM or a spare PSU that you could swap out till you find the culprit.
You do seem to have picked good brands instead of the usual crapola I see a lot of so hopefully its just something not seated properly in a slot or some other nice and simple thing like that.
Just out of interest, can you get into the BIOS setup and have it not crash, or does it screw up in there as well? | Yeah it happens when i get into the BIOS setup too
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Originally Posted by him61 This issue could be many things. You could have bad RAM, a bad power supply, your components could be overheating, etc...
Try re-seating the processor heatsink. Use thermal compound if you have any.
If that doesnt solve it, then spaw out your RAM. Take one stick out. If it continues to do that, then put it back in and take the other one out.
And if tht doesnt work, go to your local hardware store and pick up a multimeter so you can test your power supply. |
I dont think it could be that because i brought it to a pc repair place. They did nothing to it but plug everything it and it work 100% fine. I was there and saw it with my own eyes. Then when i brought it home it had the same problem
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Originally Posted by Steve R Jones Welcome to TechIMO
Did you apply thremal compound between the cpu and heatsink? |
Using the stock thermal paste that came with it | |
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August 23rd, 2007, 11:42 AM
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It sounds like a heat issue. | |
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August 23rd, 2007, 12:18 PM
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Bad power strip or UPS?? i've seen it before. | |
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August 23rd, 2007, 12:40 PM
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Its gotta be something to do with the power at home.
A client recently had similar problems, whenever they used their preferred video editing app the whole computer would crash, but in my office their computer worked perfectly.
They got a better UPS that output a 'proper' sine wave instead of the sawtooth one the old UPS did, and everything is perfect.
So, a combination of a not very good UPS and an overly sensitive PSU. | |
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