Re: Complete Crash without Blue Screen

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Many of the better power supplies have a thermal overload. To reset the overload you have to unplug the power supply from the mains and allow it to cool off for a while.

The big problem is WHY is it tripping out. It is usually due to a short in the computer somewhere. On my computer it was a capacitor that had failed on the M/B that was tripping the thermal overload in the P/S.

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Richard Urban
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Windows Desktop Experience


"Don Deacon" <ddeacon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B1ED44D1-A910-4B6D-8344-8A0496EF8AA2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I upgraded to Vista about a month ago and since then my computer (used as a
PVR) just keeps crashing. It is not even crashing with a blue screen, it
just completely shuts off. After one of these crashes, I can't just power
the PC back on either, I have to disconnect the power supply, flip the power
switch, reconnect the power supply then boot. I'd swear it was just a HW
problem myself but something is telling me it is a driver issue of some sort
as I can boot into Safe Mode and it never seems to happen (I have all the
latest drivers as well). I've looked through event viewer and I can't find
any error relating to what causes the crash either. It used to do it a
couple of times a week but is doing it fairly regularly now so I'm leaving
it in safe mode to see if it happens there, but again, now it seems to have
stopped.

Any idea on where to look to troubleshoot? If I could just troubleshoot it
down to a piece of HW I could replace it but the only thing I have is my gut
telling me it is the video drivers. Would like some better evidence.

Thanks,
D



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