rebooting computer

[RSoles]

Connectors can 'creep' due to vibration or thermal cycling.

I used to work on some kit housed behind the 19mm cannon on the Tornado a/c. That was interesting.....

Not that I'm suggesting you have similar vibrations, but the principle is the same.

[TykeMerc]

Connectors can 'creep' due to vibration or thermal cycling.

Chip and connector creep due to thermal cycling are very common as for that matter are issues with the connectors oxidising.
Oxide layers are molecule thin, but can cause enough resistance that things just stop, simple answer is to reseat everything.
While reseating it's sensible to use a decent pencil eraser on the edge connectors, that's abrasive enough to remove any oxide.

I've no idea how many PC hanging, rebooting and just plain won't start errors I've fixed with a basic 10 minute reseat.

[Cliphead]

I had the same problem some time ago which turned out to be the power supply gradually failing.

Does it reboot itself when running in safe mode?

[Jaws]

I once had a similar problem, it was due to overheating - there was loads of dust on the CPU fan. Once the dust was removed it never happened again.

[BoredBloke]

Mine used to do this. I bought some expensive and fast memory but didn't realise that you had to up the voltage. So when I ran memory tests the sencond stick appreared to fail presumably because it was being starved. So when I put any load on the box it would fall over. The shop where I bought the memory from said that they advise people not to use 2 sticks of this memory for that reason. They didn't know ablout the voltage thing. Once I increased the voltage it stopped the random reboots.

[Addanc]

Most probably the power supply.

[tim123]

Hopefully bumping this back to the top will get some more help

It appears to be a faulty disk!

It seems that where the system info for one of my users is located is bad and that it now repeatedly crashes when this is accessed.

So I can't log on as that user, but I can log on as one of the other users without incident. (Fortunately I created a copy of my user when this problem started.)

However, every time I turn on it notices this faulty disk and wants to do a scan, which results in an "unspecified error" and refuses to correct the problem.

Is there anyway that I can get it to "fix this? (I accept that I'm going to lose some data, but I've lost it anyway!)

BTW I can't find my system CD (If I ever had one!)

tim


tim

[RSoles]

chkdsk /F ?

[Platypus]

Right click the C: drive, then choose properties.
Click on Tools tab, click Check Now button.
Select both options (Fix filesystem errors and find/fix bad sectors).

Hopefully it'll mark the bad sectors and avoid accessing them in future.

[tim123]

Right click the C: drive, then choose properties.
Click on Tools tab, click Check Now button.
Select both options (Fix filesystem errors and find/fix bad sectors).

Hopefully it'll mark the bad sectors and avoid accessing them in future.

It refuses to do that because "it can't check the disk that system files are on whilst windows is running".

It says that it marks the disk for a check the next time the computer starts, but this disk check at startup fails to complete (and thus doesn't mark the bad blocks)

I think that I'm stuffed with that computer and am going to have to scrap it

(thanks)

tim