Re: Sudden shutdown

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On Tue, 23 May 2006 13:46:39 +1000, Mickey Mouse wrote:

Hi girls I'm wondering about this problem too. Seems to only have
manifestered after the introduction of XP, at least for me anyway. I do
know however it also began after upgrading to a new motherboard also, in my
case a Gigabyte board. My system shut down so often that I complained and
replaced my suspect Gigabyte for another Gigabyte. After replacing the
board I still get sudden shut downs but now very few. It happens to me
about two or three times a week at no specific interval or time. Not enough
to get me upset, it's is a niusence though. As I said I've only noticed
this stuation in newsgroup posts since the introduction of XP which is not
to say the root of the problem is XP itself. There could be so many reasons
like application conflicts. Do you gals use Gigabyte mobo's? I'd be
interested to know.
I'm running a....
Dual Core AMD Opertron processor 165 1800
Bus speed 200 mhz
Mobo Gigabyte nforce
Bios Award F7
Memory 2048
Sound Realtek AC97 audio
Video Nvidia Gforce 6800

I would be cool if someone took a survey of people having this trouble so a
comparison of setups could be established. Just a thought.

Mickey


Hi, Mickey.

When XP was released, the motherboard I had at the time was Gigabyte. XP
ran fine on it and never had any problems.

You should take a look in Event Viewer as well. Sometimes error messages
that don't make it to the screen will be captured by the error reporting
system and recorded in Event Viewer.

Many, many causes for random shutdowns. Could be a program that's erred
badly and it takes down XP as well. Or could be a hardware problem. If
overclocking at all, use default settings in BIOS. Also, you've replaced
the motherboard. Sometimes you can get by without repair installing XP but
more often, it's a necessary step when changing motherboards.

If new motherboard was an exact replacement of old, is the BIOS version the
same as the old board? Or is it newer/older?

"Simplify" is a good place to start when troubleshooting - disconnecting
all extras until the base computer and absolutely necessary hardware is
working reliably. Then start adding things back one at a time.

Also due to the randomness, you might consider running diagnostics on the
RAM. References for a few of the memory tester applications that are
available:

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

http://www.memtest.org/

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
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