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Grant Sewell wrote: > peter wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have my son in laws old computer (with quite a good spec) running >> Window$ which keeps on crashing after about an hour. I asked before here >> and I think we settled for heat problems, but then it would only last 15 >> mins max. (I have reset a lot of BIOS stuff - and its winter!). >> >> I have booted it up with an old Ubuntu live CD (can not remove windoze >> (not my computer - yet)). This will help to discover if the problem is >> Windows related (It crashed on Linux previously) . Is there anything I >> can use to try and work out what is happening? It has network and >> Internet access. Perhaps there is a way to capture its dieing gasp (But >> I currently can not write to disk). >> >> All the best >> >> Peter >> > I had a machine that would last for several hours, and then would just > reboot unannounced. After this, it would continually reboot > (unannounced) every 5mins or so. Checking the CPU temp, etc, came up > with nothing. It turned out that the fan on the power supply had stopped > spinning and so the PSU was overheating. > > Grant. > > sounds about right that power supply a bit iffy,youcould give it a good clean out first,normally you would get some sort of warning if it was a software problem ie:blue warning screen or this application has to close. you could download everest, ithink that puts a monitor into your tray when you run it that gives you the cpu temp and gives you lots of other info. alex the noob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html