- Joined
- Sep 5, 2002
- Location
- Toronto, ON
I've got a PC (actually my girlfriend's) that shuts down out of nowhere every once in a while (sometimes it does it a few times close together, and sometimes it doesn't do it for quite a while). It doens't power all the way down (fans and stuff are still spining), but kind of goes into a standby mode and the signal to the monitor is lost. It seems to mainly do this when browsing the web, but that's what this computer is mainly used for.
The computer has a 1.2GHz Athlon (133MHz FSB), Asus A7V133, Radeon 8500LE 64MB (Sapphire), 256MB PC133, Aopen 300W PSU, SB live, Asus CD-RW and a DVD ROM drive.
At first I thought that the chip was getting too hot, as it was going over 60C, so I changed the cheap HSF that I had on it for my old Volcano9, which I think should be good enough. It dropped the temps considerably (low 50s), but the reboot problem still persists. Even with the CPU at 900MHz, the problem is still there (temps dropped to high 40s with the CPU at that speed).
Has anyone else had a problem similar to this? I think that the next thing that I will try is changing the power supply, but I'm wondering if the problem sounds familiar to someone who might be able to pinpoint it.
*EDIT* I forgot to mention the hard drive. It's a 40MB Western Digital (the 2MB cache model).
The computer has a 1.2GHz Athlon (133MHz FSB), Asus A7V133, Radeon 8500LE 64MB (Sapphire), 256MB PC133, Aopen 300W PSU, SB live, Asus CD-RW and a DVD ROM drive.
At first I thought that the chip was getting too hot, as it was going over 60C, so I changed the cheap HSF that I had on it for my old Volcano9, which I think should be good enough. It dropped the temps considerably (low 50s), but the reboot problem still persists. Even with the CPU at 900MHz, the problem is still there (temps dropped to high 40s with the CPU at that speed).
Has anyone else had a problem similar to this? I think that the next thing that I will try is changing the power supply, but I'm wondering if the problem sounds familiar to someone who might be able to pinpoint it.
*EDIT* I forgot to mention the hard drive. It's a 40MB Western Digital (the 2MB cache model).