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| | Hi, and greetings from a new member, I run Windows Vista Home Preium on a well equipped, but still AGP motherboard. Abit, socket 939, Rocketboy, AV8 motherboard, for more than one year. Recently, about 3 to 10 minutes after startup and running some quite common programs, the computer suddenly shuts down, and then restarts up to the point I have to enter the password and start again, having ost all uncompleted work. Please help me to correct this situation, by suggesting what I should look at. Many thanks roy Mayo.
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| | Sorry for incomplete post:- I have the Vista Home Premium with SP1 installed. After restarting, I get the message "Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown". Please help! Roy Mayo.
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| Please don' take this the wrong way -- but this almost certainly NOT a Vista problem. Sudden shutdowns like this, especially when a BSOD is not shown, are nearly always hardware-based. That can include any and all of the following:
1) Overheating -- CPU, GPU, memory(less fequently)
2) Memory failure (even memory can fail eventually)
3) PSU (Power Supply Unit) degradation -- results in power drops/spikes which crashes the machine hard
4) Overclocking (CPU, FSB, Memory, GPU) -- eventually wears out the hardware and a threshold is passed, whereup the hardware can't take the stress anymore and fails.
I've had all four happen over the years and when they do, it's sudden.
We're not equipped to walk folks through the details of hardware diagnostics, but a few things you can check are the following:
1) BIOS usually include panels for hardware monitoring that show temperatures. Boot into your BIOS and see what it reports. ANY temperature over 50 degress Celcius is cause for concern; anything over 70 degress Celsius is a recipe for failure
2) Google for MEM86TEST86+ Normally have free downloads you can use to burn a boot CD or diskette you can then use to run memory test. Vista will also allow a memory test by pressing F8 upon boot and selecting the test option.
3) PSUs fail without warning. I've had two fail within a single year and the symptoms started out like yours with eventually, being unable to boot the machine or even have the fans power up. Underpowered PSUs tend to wear out faster if you stress them. 400+ watt CPUs are available dirt cheap these days.
4) Don't overclock unless you know exactly what you're doing. Period.
Good Luck
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Running: Windows 7, Vista 32-bit, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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