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Posted by Gunther Gloop on 10/03/06 15:18
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
> Faulty PSU
I was thinking that too.
Andy F Batter wrote:
> I was going to suggest similar. Could it be the CPU overheating too,
> possibly?
>
Well it doesn't seem related to the length of time the pc is on ...or to
CPU-intensive actions.
> First thing I'd do is take the lid off and hoover out any dust that's
> built up. I'd not expect intermittent reboots like that are software
> related.
Last time I did that I had to suffer TSK TSKs from the "experts" who said
that could kill everything in there with static sparks (or something).
I think it cleared the overheating problem on my old graphics card at the
time though.
It doesn't seem _too_ dusty in there, but I'll check the PSU more carefully
in a while.
> Having said that, my XP install seems to be getting a blit flaky of
> late. I'm getting a few too many "windows must end this process"
> pop-ups, would do a clean install, but having had the PC for nearly 3
> years I've so many utilities and things to reinstall I don't know
> what's worse, putting up with the crashes or putting the hours in
> reinstalling.
Yup. My last reinstall took *weeks* before I was happy enough that I'd have
a day go by without having to install _something_.
RobertJM wrote:
> You could give this a go, if you haven't already.
>
> http://www.ccleaner.com/
Off to give that a bash now.
Thanks to all!
-Kevin.
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