Community Newsletter: Q&A: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes!
- 5/9/08 1:48 PM
answer to computer rebooting every 10 min
by italmode - 5/2/08 8:34 PM In reply to: Could Be Overheating... by Launchpad_72you installed wrong memory change and get the correct memory for your computer it will solve your problem
Mother board
by richardwalpole - 4/25/08 10:03 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I´m building a computer with Intel Desktop Board DG31PR and I can not get sound (which is build in) everything else is working but I need sound. do I to change mother boards.
Richard
Rebooting computer
by tbone69069 - 4/25/08 10:03 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Hi Santhsh, I hope that we can help you with your problem. There could be a few things going wrong with your computer rebooting. It could be a virus or an overheating problem. If you run a virus program and find it to be clean. Try going to an online virus scan. The best one I know of is Trend Micro. If you search for "Online Virus Scan". It will be right there on the first page.
Another problem could be that it is overheating. You didn't mention how old the computer is. You may need to check the front and back vents to see that they are not covered with dust. This will block air flow and cause your computer to overheat. Also, take the side cover off and make sure you clean all the dust out of the inside and off the CPU cooling fan. You can use compressed air or even a vacum.
I h ope this works and you are up and running smotthly and trouble
Ronfree
Reboot problem
by fwspark - 4/25/08 10:04 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
One thing to check for in this situation is to listen to or see if the fan on the CPU is running. If not The cpu gets too hot and turns off forcing a reboot.
standard t-shooting rules apply
by cashn - 4/25/08 10:08 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
1. check motherboard capacitors for "pregnant" caps if they are not flat on them toss the board or replace ALL the caps.
2. if the caps are fine, make sure you have a GOOD psu (power supply)
A good psu will be HEAVY and have a good fan. ULTRA brand power supplies have a lifetime warranty when registered properly btw
Antec and thermaltake also have good psu's
3.check your thermals with a utility such as "speedfan" by almico
google speedfan
4.if all that passes, find a bootable media of your choice and load a memtest stress utility such as memtest 86
this tests all hardware that cause this 90% of the time.
If continues disassemble completely clean contacts and reassemble it for a bad connection to a vid card etc.
5 if still continues, you have likely a crappy component somewhere, get name brand high quality components that are HEAVY not light.
watch for real warranties where they are accountable if they make garbage.
for example : seagate has 5 year warranties on their retail hard drives. they strive to NOT have failures or they will pay for it.
thus good quality. the same goes for ultra brand products with LIFETIME warranties.
I found it.
by supersoj - 4/25/08 10:14 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I read the problem in the first 15 words of your' question.
You are running on 256 MB of ram.
While I don't know what you are using for an Operating System, I can tell you 256 was fine for anything prior to Windows NT. If your' running XP, your' crawling, and if you are running vista, that's impossible. Because Vista won't install on anything less then 512.
Upgrade your' ram to 512, or if you really want it to fly, try boosting it up to a gig.
On a 1700+ AMD compatable mother board, you can probably push it as high as 2 gigs of ram. ((Best Buy/Future Shop sell 1 gig, and 2 gig ram sticks, relatively cheaply.))
This is pretty much the only curlprit that could cause a 10-20 minute boot time.
some people just cant READ he said" reboots " not boot!
by cashn - 4/25/08 10:25 PM In reply to: I found it. by supersojsigh... it reboots as in hardware failure not takes 20 min to boot.
but for an AMD i am NOT suprised. Here is some stats for ya:
EVERY time I have built a Intel system, I have built a equivalent AMD box to test between the two.
only 15% Of the time the amd outperforms the intel box but here is the BIG HITTER: All intel boxes i have ever built are still running in the bone yard here, i can power any of them up and they will run as the day they retired. NOT ONE AMD box has survived the long haul.
period:INTEL wins hands down.
Amd makes the cheap throw away boxes.
INTEL makes the keepers.
nuff said.
read next time...
c,
Rebooting PC.
by Nilesh Adwankar - 4/25/08 10:24 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Dear, Sanath.
If you have tried all posibilities with software,RAM,
Hard Drive formatting.but still it is giving same problem.
You must try for a power supply.May be Five Volts are
giving problem in the Power Supply Box.or On Mother Board there
is a regulator it must be dry solder,after getting heated it is living contact. Otherwise clean the socket & Pins of CPU.These posible faults i suspect in this case.
Regards,
Nilesh.
power supply
by onefedup1 - 4/25/08 10:39 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Most likely you have a bad power supply. Many are cheap and don't last, and even good ones will fail. When buying a new one remember you get what you pay for. Bad power supplies will cause all kinds of weird behavior like rebooting and crashes.
Simple answer..It was for me
by grntech - 4/25/08 10:45 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I had the same thing happen to me.
The answer for me was "HEAT" to much of it.
Check your cooling.
Might be it
PC Rebooting
by rehanjuma - 4/25/08 10:47 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
specs seems to be OKAY, i think it can be a problem with PC power supply. Get it checked, you may have to install 800V power supply.
PC rebooting
by EvilEyes - 4/25/08 10:50 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I had this problem a while back. Mine was a simple solution, after going through some of the same procedures as you I finally noticed the computer was overheating. It turned out the fan was gunged up, and a clean out did the trick.
Pc keeps Rebooting...
by kashifmunir - 4/25/08 10:55 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Well, this porblem occurs due to several reasons, and as you've told, you have changed your RAM, so the problem could be from inside (softwares)as well as from outside, you need to see the ambient temperature; you need to see if the fan is running properly; if not, your computer is in critical condition, it could be due the dust in the fan above the processor, or if the fan is within the casing, it is also not running properly, sometimes it is ok, someimtes it's not, so you need to see it; aslo you need to know(if you're not using a laptop) that the onboard capacitors(from 6 to 8) near the supply are properly air conditioned.
Hopefully it would fix your problem, cause i've lost my mainboard only due to this reason. My system kept on rebooting without any cause, and i've lost one of my DDR RAM too.
O.S. situation Comaptibility
by 01archie - 4/25/08 11:01 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Iam finding more and more earlier generation disk writters and such peripherials on board or off board are not VISTA ready.
You didnt mention your O.S.
Also, I have to ask, did you do a compatibility check of your PC and system vs the new hardware? Its within the Windows startup when getting ready to install totally New programs/ CD info.
My next question is, when you first up loaded the supplied CD ROM which came with the CD Writter, did it install correctly?
Were there any errors?
This would have been a major malfumction and quite possibly may not have let all the files install, at all.
My last clue to the re-booting every 20-40 seconds is, eithier the CD is NO good, has some glitches from the mfg. and is missing some improtant .dll's/cach files. I would contact the distributor where you bought the CD Writter for a new disk.....OR, go online and see if the Vendor has a web site where you just might be able to find some NEW driver updates. Program updates, as well.
I certainly Hope this helped.
Check Your CPU temp!!
by mydogwas - 4/25/08 11:57 PM In reply to: Help! My PC keeps rebooting every 10 to 20 minutes! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The first place i would begin to look for the shutting down problem is your CPU operating temp.
Boot your computer into BIOS mode (generally by tapping the delete key while the POST screen shows)and hunt around till you find the CPU temp.
There is generally a shut off temp setting that once your CPU reaches that temp it, well, it shuts down; if you have windows set to restart after a shutdown that would explain the loop your getting.
If your CPU is reading hot, say over 65c, then examine your cooling fan and heatsink to make sure that the fan is working properly, and the air channels thru the heatsink are clear.
REMEMBER TO UNPLUG YOUR MACHINE, and keep yourself grounded while poking around inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If that part is ok, then it's probably time to re-goop your heatsink with thermal paste.
this is done by popping the heat sink and fan off the CPU (google your motherboard model to find instructions to do this for your motherboard), spread a layer of thermal paste on the heat transfer piece of metal on your heat sink, then re-assemble the fan and heat sink and re-attach it to the motherboard.
If that doesn't take care of the problem, then it's time to do some serious anti crapware investigations!
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