thanks everyone for all the help ! as irritated as this situation makes me (and believe me, it makes me very
very irritated), it makes it easier having so much useful advice.
idoine : you don't recommend avast anti-virus ? i installed that one because it was recommended to me by 2 different friends who both know much more than i do about this stuff and i've been quite happy with it so far... doesn't seem to get in my way, detects things if there is anything to detect, doesn't give false alerts, doesn't conflict with anything else... why is Nod32 (i've never heard of that one...) better ? teatimer... i think i shut that off for some reason but i'll activate it again (since you say so...
). unless it starts causing trouble, that is.
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Originally Posted by mjh215
"Have you tried turning it off and back on again?" j/k 
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mj : thanks for the ultimate boot cd link. of course, i won't know what to do with most of those things, but i'll download it anyway. i already got the memtest86 although i haven't had a chance to run that one yet. i'm starting to think it's not the ram which is the problem. testing overnight : not likely ! it's in my bedroom and the noise of the fan would drive me crazy while i was trying to sleep.
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Originally Posted by jgray
I never run my computers without a UPS. I have been doing this for years. Not only does a UPS protect you from power outages, brownouts and flickers, but a name brand UPS is also a good surge protector. Most of the inexpensive (cheap) surge protectors are practically useless. Most of the cheap ones really are cheap and only have a single MOV for surge protection. In a nutshell - get a UPS. It is good computer insurance.
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since i have a pretty ancient and unreliable electrical installation here i think that might be a good idea. any recommendations for good ones, the cheapest and smallest possible please ? bad timing to spend more money on the farking computer, but if it's necessary, it's necessary.
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Originally Posted by ahammer
this sounds like it could also be a overheating issue have you look at the cpu heat.
the cpu fan mayhave become unseated when the case was moved or it could be in a spot without good cyclation to few cpu fans maybe . I went over bord on my case and have 8 fans in it
my mobo came with softwere to look. if you do not have some I can see if I can dig some up on the interwebs |
i think everest can tell me that, right ? i've stuck a couple of reports at the end of this message. but if you have a different suggestion please tell me. the fans both seem to be working well (i can hear them, the ventilation grilles are clean, and if i put my hand in front of them i can feel the air moving). it doesn't have huge amounts of space around it because i don't have huge amounts of space available, but the ventilation grilles are not blocked.
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Originally Posted by kazbates
My school secretary's computer kept restarting and we realized that the outlet into which it was plugged was faulty. They had had various tech people looking at the problem but couldn't figure it out. I called my husband and he very logically said, "check the outlet".  Sometimes it's as simple as that.  |
i am beginning to think it could be electrical. as i said, the electrical installation here is ancient and unreliable and i've had (other) problems with it before. how would i check the outlet, exactly ?
it could also be overheating, i suppose, although that seems less likely to me since i'm pretty sure i had this problem during the winter as well and at least theoretically it shouldn't have been overheating then (particularly this winter). i specifically requested a box with a good fan (there are 2 : one in back, one on the proc which blows out through vents in the side, there is a tunnel built onto the inside of the panel to send the air directly out) because it's usually running for about 15 hours straight (sometimes more) every day, but yesterday it restarted twice and it was really hot all day ; today it was freezing and no trouble. i haven't noticed if there's a correlation the previous times though, it could be coincidence. i installed the trial version of everest and i did a report yesterday (although it was already 10 at night), the temperatures were :
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Températures:
Carte mère 42 °C (108 °F)
Processeur 39 °C (102 °F)
CPU #1 / Coeur #1 50 °C (122 °F)
CPU #1 / Coeur #2 50 °C (122 °F)
Diode du GPU (DispIO) 47 °C (117 °F)
Diode du GPU (MemIO) 49 °C (120 °F)
Diode du GPU (Ombreur) 51 °C (124 °F)
SAMSUNG HD103UJ [ TRIAL VERSION ]
WDC WD5000AAJS-32YFA0 [ TRIAL VERSION ]
Ventilateurs:
Processeur 1152 RPM
just now :
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Températures:
Carte mère 40 °C (104 °F)
Processeur 35 °C (95 °F)
CPU #1 / Coeur #1 47 °C (117 °F)
CPU #1 / Coeur #2 47 °C (117 °F)
Diode du GPU (DispIO) 45 °C (113 °F)
Diode du GPU (MemIO) 46 °C (115 °F)
Diode du GPU (Ombreur) 48 °C (118 °F)
SAMSUNG HD103UJ [ TRIAL VERSION ]
WDC WD5000AAJS-32YFA0 [ TRIAL VERSION ]
Ventilateurs:
Processeur 973 RPM