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September 10th, 2014, 01:19 AM
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Regular Crew
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Newton Abbot Devon
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Unstable PC
For a while now, one of our PC`s has been acting quite odd! Occasionally the mouse pointer will freeze & the only way to restore it`s working is to crash reboot! It will be fine for days on end so it appears very random. Now it`s decided to suddenly shut down & reboot of it`s own accord. When it starts up it asks if you want to start windows normally & then says that it has recovered from an unexpected shutdown! Any ideas guys? Thanks.
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September 10th, 2014, 03:15 AM
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Major Player
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Brandon, England
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Re: Unstable PC
What regular maintenance do you do on your computers, any?
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September 10th, 2014, 07:29 AM
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Equal Opportunity Offender
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Re: Unstable PC
Take it somewhere that has an air hose, such as a petrol/gas station, and use the pressurised air to blow all the dust out from inside the computer case ... especially out of the fan and heat sink on top of the CPU.
This is always a good start. Andrew |
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September 10th, 2014, 07:51 AM
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Regular Crew
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Newton Abbot Devon
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Re: Unstable PC
Thanks Andrew! As a retired mobile mechanic I still have an air compressor so I`ll give that a try! Cheers :-)
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September 10th, 2014, 02:15 PM
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Regular Crew
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Location: Newton Abbot Devon
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Re: Unstable PC
So far, so good :-)
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September 10th, 2014, 03:54 PM
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Equal Opportunity Offender
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Re: Unstable PC
Awesome!
Andrew |
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September 15th, 2014, 12:04 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Honolulu, HI
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Re: Unstable PC
Pull out your RAM, clean the terminals, then reinstall.
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