Why does my computer shut down randomly?

[chisness]

My computer shuts down randomly. This started a little less than a year ago. I don't know what causes it and I have reformatted, which didn't fix anything.

Is this likely to be an overheating issue? If so, how do I fix it?

This is the last time I custom make a computer [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[jakethebake]

Try this.

[swede123]

Does it happen after the computer has been running for a long time? If so an overheating issue is more likely the cause.

Swede

[chisness]

It completely varies. It can be 15 minutes or two days. Sometimes I'm sitting here, sometimes I'm away. I don't think it's ever happened while I was playing a full screen game.

[chisness]

i just got a temperature detector, and it says two of the temperatures are 68 and 59 degrees celsius -- are these too high?

[Freakin]

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Why does my computer shut down randomly?

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Because you touch yourself at night.

[gorie]

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i just got a temperature detector, and it says two of the temperatures are 68 and 59 degrees celsius -- are these too high?

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those are pretty high. i don't think you want over 50.
my cpu temp is around 37-42 c
mb temp 32 c

[gorie]

do you use winxp ? try turning off the auto-reboot on errors feature. then you might get some error messages that might help figure out the problem next time it happens.

go to the control panel -> system -> advanced -> start up and recovery
uncheck 'automatically restart' under system failure.

[ChipWrecked]

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i just got a temperature detector, and it says two of the temperatures are 68 and 59 degrees celsius -- are these too high?

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Yes. 68c is way too hot. Servers in our datacenter will shut themselves down at 70c.

[jakethebake]

I suggest ice water.