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On July 02 2010 09:47 Wala.Revolution wrote:
What's the problem when my computer won't turn on? I push the button, the computer turns on for half a second, then turns off. Then it's unresponsive for hours, after which it 'magically' turns on again. Is it a temperature issue?
Also is it normal for XP to be in SP2 in safe mode?
this is a hardware issue. psu or mobo.
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On July 02 2010 11:12 mahnini wrote:Show nested quote +On July 02 2010 09:47 Wala.Revolution wrote:
What's the problem when my computer won't turn on? I push the button, the computer turns on for half a second, then turns off. Then it's unresponsive for hours, after which it 'magically' turns on again. Is it a temperature issue?
Also is it normal for XP to be in SP2 in safe mode? this is a hardware issue. psu or mobo.
Is there a way to diagnose specifically what went wrong?
Computer again is emitting high-pitched noise which came before crashes. So far only sound isn't working and computer is working fine.
Going to turn off and see what happens.
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If it's making the high pitch noise before getting to booting windows than I would say it's not just the hard drive anymore.
How to test.. what do you have at your disposal as far as extra parts?
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On July 02 2010 11:37 Joey.rumz wrote:
If it's making the high pitch noise before getting to booting windows than I would say it's not just the hard drive anymore.
How to test.. what do you have at your disposal as far as extra parts?
Nono, basically every few times when I try to get on 'normal' windows, it works. Since I don't have to go all the way across the room for the computer I'm currently on for advice, I'm using the broken computer to browse tests and solutions.
I was doing that, then noise came. All four or five crashes were prempted by the said noise.
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Have you run chkdsk through the run prompt since logging onto it?
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On July 02 2010 11:31 Wala.Revolution wrote:Show nested quote +On July 02 2010 11:12 mahnini wrote:On July 02 2010 09:47 Wala.Revolution wrote:
What's the problem when my computer won't turn on? I push the button, the computer turns on for half a second, then turns off. Then it's unresponsive for hours, after which it 'magically' turns on again. Is it a temperature issue?
Also is it normal for XP to be in SP2 in safe mode? this is a hardware issue. psu or mobo. Is there a way to diagnose specifically what went wrong? Computer again is emitting high-pitched noise which came before crashes. So far only sound isn't working and computer is working fine. Going to turn off and see what happens.
sounds like a capacitor is swelling. could be from the psu or mobo, not sure there's anyway to find out without replacing parts though i guess when you hear it you could check real fast before it crashes.
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On July 02 2010 12:24 mahnini wrote:Show nested quote +On July 02 2010 11:31 Wala.Revolution wrote:On July 02 2010 11:12 mahnini wrote:On July 02 2010 09:47 Wala.Revolution wrote:
What's the problem when my computer won't turn on? I push the button, the computer turns on for half a second, then turns off. Then it's unresponsive for hours, after which it 'magically' turns on again. Is it a temperature issue?
Also is it normal for XP to be in SP2 in safe mode? this is a hardware issue. psu or mobo. Is there a way to diagnose specifically what went wrong? Computer again is emitting high-pitched noise which came before crashes. So far only sound isn't working and computer is working fine. Going to turn off and see what happens. sounds like a capacitor is swelling. could be from the psu or mobo, not sure there's anyway to find out without replacing parts though i guess when you hear it you could check real fast before it crashes.
He's computer illiterate, I don't know if you can expect him to understand what a swelled capacitor looks like.. unless they are corroded. That would be pretty simple to see.
![[image loading]](http://hothardware.com/newsimages/Item13616/image.axd.jpg)
See if any of the capacitors on the motherboard are experiencing cracks on the top of them. If they are leaking you have a problem, if they have a crack in them but are not leaking, that's a swollen capacitor.. just as bad.
Edit: Found a good pic.
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On June 30 2010 13:06 ZapRoffo wrote:Hi, so my problem I'm looking for help with is my laptop overheating. The model is Dell XPS M1530, it's about 2 years old. Relevant hardware information I think: + Show Spoiler +I've been happy playing stuff on my 6 year old P4 desktop but it can't handle big 3v3 battles or normal 4v4 battles or some customs of sc2 even on the lowest everything settings so I've been migrating my gaming over to this computer. It is getting super hot though, I've been running SpeedFan and glancing at it quickly after alt-tabs every once in a while. Doing anything that requires graphics gets the core0 and core1 and CPU temperatures reading about ~80 degrees C, with the GPU also around 80 as well (which seems not as bad?). And this with one of those fan pads underneath it that gives it air and space. If I sit it directly on a surface and run sc2 or quake live it will turn itself off after a bit, I assume because it passes a temperature threshold. Even just watching a recent Day9 daily at full screen was giving me temperatures near 80 C. Real Temp (since I wanted more data) is giving even higher numbers (with 1 game minimized and firefox open it said 83 C, 67 C on the GPU. I've taken the back off and sprayed air everywhere around the vents and fan and just everywhere I could. I can't seem to undo 3 of the 6 screws holding the heatsink and fan in place with my available screwdrivers so I can't get inside the fan apparatus really. Is this something that would help? Any ideas?
i'm not that sure about laptop cpus but your voltage is really fucking high for a cpu running at 1ghz. try resetting your bios settings to default and / or reflashing your bios with the latest version.
oh nevermind it's 65nm. either way it wouldn't hurt updating your bios there might be updates to improve temperature issues.
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On July 02 2010 12:43 mahnini wrote:Show nested quote +On June 30 2010 13:06 ZapRoffo wrote:Hi, so my problem I'm looking for help with is my laptop overheating. The model is Dell XPS M1530, it's about 2 years old. Relevant hardware information I think: + Show Spoiler +I've been happy playing stuff on my 6 year old P4 desktop but it can't handle big 3v3 battles or normal 4v4 battles or some customs of sc2 even on the lowest everything settings so I've been migrating my gaming over to this computer. It is getting super hot though, I've been running SpeedFan and glancing at it quickly after alt-tabs every once in a while. Doing anything that requires graphics gets the core0 and core1 and CPU temperatures reading about ~80 degrees C, with the GPU also around 80 as well (which seems not as bad?). And this with one of those fan pads underneath it that gives it air and space. If I sit it directly on a surface and run sc2 or quake live it will turn itself off after a bit, I assume because it passes a temperature threshold. Even just watching a recent Day9 daily at full screen was giving me temperatures near 80 C. Real Temp (since I wanted more data) is giving even higher numbers (with 1 game minimized and firefox open it said 83 C, 67 C on the GPU. I've taken the back off and sprayed air everywhere around the vents and fan and just everywhere I could. I can't seem to undo 3 of the 6 screws holding the heatsink and fan in place with my available screwdrivers so I can't get inside the fan apparatus really. Is this something that would help? Any ideas? i'm not that sure about laptop cpus but your voltage is really fucking high for a cpu running at 1ghz. try resetting your bios settings to default and / or reflashing your bios with the latest version. oh nevermind it's 65nm. either way it wouldn't hurt updating your bios there might be updates to improve temperature issues.
Updating your bios is not going to solve a heating issue and if nothing else is wrong there's no reason for him to update his bios, it could only cause problems...
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Uh BIOS updates can fix the voltages that go to the CPU. After all it is in the BIOS where you can adjust the voltages. A BIOS update can fix malfunctioning features (most notably is probably the AMD Cool N Quiet)
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i never said it would fix anything anyway. manufacturers occasionally release new bios versions after making optimizations to cpu operating temps (especially for laptops) so it wouldn't hurt and it's probably the only other thing that could be the issue aside from it being a hsf problem.
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http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=33915
intel says the VID range for your CPU is 1.075 - 1.175V and max temp is 85C. unless intel is wrong your voltage should be nowhere near 1.25. you might need to go into the bios is manually set the vcore.
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Alright so I have a pretty weird problem with my computer that I've been battling with for several weeks now. Basically I bought this computer like 8 months ago, has windows 7 64-bit, nice hardware, good fans, etc. About a month ago my computer decides to restart itself 2-3 times a day. There is no error log, and it is not a system crash. It restarts just like if I manually asked it to restart itself. In my computer settings, I set it to generate an error report instead of auto-shutting down if there's a problem.
Since then, I've blown all the dust out, I've run antivir, housecall, super anti spyware, ad-aware, spybot, and a program that repairs the registry and system files. I've also done a system restore. None of these things have resolved the issue. I'm pretty much at a loss.
If it helps, it only does the restarts with several hours in between. It makes me think it may be a temperature issue, except that the fans are all clearly working and dusted off.
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Hmmm... Is this a legal copy of windows 7? And not windows 7 RC version?
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On July 02 2010 22:32 Joey.rumz wrote:
Hmmm... Is this a legal copy of windows 7? And not windows 7 RC version?
Legal copy
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You were able to do a system restore to the exact point before this problem started to occur? (I know your name looked familiar, marktheshark.)
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On July 03 2010 01:58 Joey.rumz wrote:
You were able to do a system restore to the exact point before this problem started to occur? (I know your name looked familiar, marktheshark.)
Definitely was able to restore it to before the problem occurred. I know this because I system restored back to a different problem (which I fixed, again) that happened before this one.
Edit: Yea, I am marktheshark
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I'm going to need full system specs so I can dig through some possible walkthroughs and solutions to the problem.
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Excellent post, my next question is does this happen while you are actively using the computer? When you walk away from this computer?
Are you able to run an application for about an hour, than check the temperatures in the Bios to see if it is, in fact, suffering for overheating? If you are actively on this computer when this is happening, I suggest waiting to see when it restarts, going into your bios, and check your temperatures.
Here is a nifty program that you can use to check temperature in real time:
CoreTemp
Looking forward to what we see here.
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