[Coco] OT -- PC needs TWO Shut Downs

Mike Pepe lamune at doki-doki.net
Tue Apr 4 09:32:25 EDT 2006


Bruce W. Calkins wrote:
> Humm, Check the CPU cooling fan and heat sink compound.  This part sounds
> like what overheated CPU did to me once.
> 
> Bruce W.
> 

I've also seen flaking out power supplies cause spontaneous reboots, 
random crashes, etc.

I had one just recently do this to me. A fully redundant server-grade 
power supply along with a machine that would reboot itself for no 
apparent reason. Replaced it with a new regular PC supply and no 
problems since!




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