Re: Spontaneous resetting

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From: Dave Mills (News_at_nospam.djmills.co.uk)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 23:26:33 +0000

"Rob Hemmings" <rkh@NOSPAM.le.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>"Graeme Hartley" <graeme_hartley@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1107725305.162104@news.minx.net.uk...
>> Win2k has been the most stable OS that I have used for the past few years
>> until recently!!!
>>
>> I am now having problems with processes not completing (like deleting
>files,
>> changing permissions, closing applications etc...). If I take a look at
>> these processes using the task manager they are running and or not flagged
>> as 'not responding'. If I forcefully stop them then other applications
>which
>> I start up do not run properly and eventually my hard disks power down and
>> the whole system goes down just as if I have pressed the 'reset' switch on
>> the front of my machine. There are other times where I can just be panning
>> the mouse over something or opening and menu and my computer just
>> spontaneously resets as above.
>>
>> Invariably, when the system self-reboots, I get the little dialogue box
>> stating "Windows is starting up..." and this stays up indefinitely until I
>> have to press 'reset' in my computer's front panel, then the computer will
>> boot up properly after this.
>>
>> I have no idea what is causing this (no error log, nothing!), but suspect
>it
>> is one of Microsoft's latest Update patches... As I said before, I have
>> never had problems like this but only since I have recently (in the last
>two
>> months or so) updated using MS Update!
>>
>> Anyone any ideas?
>
>Worth checking your memory with a memtest (free) boot floppy:
>http://www.memtest86.com
>before you go any further as faulty ram can cause all kinds of wonderful
>weirdness like this. Leave it testing for a few hours.
>I also had a bad PSU which caused similar symptoms - when I used
>monitoring software, I found that +5v was actually 4.62v which is well
>below spec. Replaced the PSU and everything worked perfectly, so
>although your problem may well be software, check hardware first,
>if poss.
>HTH

Check the voltages in the Bios Monitor (if there is one) had a system
that would shut down or start up on it's own and often started
"tweeting" in the speaker. Found one of the voltages was oscillating
between 0 on -12v at a random interval. New PSU did the trick.

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