Arrgh!

[jethrien]

That's the second time today that my computer has spontaneously shut itself off! No warning, no blue screen, it just suddenly reboots! One second I'm in the middle of composing an email, the next I'm staring at the little flying Windows icon as it starts up again! WTF?

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[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Or it could be the motherboard. Michael's desktop was doing exactly the same thing. We thought it was overheating, so we reseated the heat sink a few times, which did nothing. Eventually its power supply died, which we then assumed had been the problem, so we gave it a new power supply. But it still spontaneously rebooted. So we took out a shorting sound card (that had killed the power supply), which also failed to fix the problem, replaced the RAM, still broken, finally had to buy a new motherboard. Alas, his processor was too old to work with nearly any modern motherboards, so we ended up building him an entirely new computer. :)