Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop

From	R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.hardware
Subject	Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop
Date	2017-02-10 12:35 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 02/10/2017 12:23 PM, Rodney Pont wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:34:51 -0500, R2D4 wrote:
>
>> Yesterday, while on my desktop and using the hard drive that has XP, the
>> unit suddenly shutdown for no reason, not a normal shut down routine,
>> just went off completely, like turning off by power button.  Then, after
>> I rebooted, it would freeze after a few minutes were the only way to fix
>> was to reboot (ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't do anything).
>>
>> I have had this desktop for over 5 years and haven't had any issues.  At
>> boot up, I can select either XP or Win 7 as each OS is on a separate
>> hard drive.  The first thing I decided to check was the C drive that has
>> XP on it, so I rebooted into Win 7 and then used scandisk to check for
>> and repair any errors overnight.  No shutdowns and Win 7 reported no C
>> drive errors this morning.  Right now, I am running Memtest at boot up
>> for a few hours to see if maybe I have a memory issue going on (but now
>> I'm thinking not since Win 7 was able to run overnight without shut down
>> or freezing.... but it is on a separate hard drive... could the XP hard
>> drive be doing this even though showing no errors?)
>
> Check that the mains cable is pushed in properly then I'd just wait and
> see if it happens again, it may just have been one of those things...
> If it does happen again I'd try a new power supply first, not much else
> can cause the power to just drop out.
>

I was moving things in and around that particular desktop yesterday, so 
it may be that the power cable isn't quite connecting.  I will check 
that out shortly.  Right now, I'm in XP and was running the same things 
I did yesterday and all good so far, no freezes or shutdowns.  I also 
installed HWmonitor and Tmonitor.  Neither one so far showing anything 
out of the ordinary with normal 12V and 5V supply voltages, temps and 
clocking seem fine.

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sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 11:34 -0500
  Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop "Rodney Pont" <mlist4@infohit.me.uk> - 2017-02-10 17:23 +0000
    Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 12:35 -0500
  Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-10 14:35 -0600
    Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 15:56 -0500
      Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-10 16:19 -0600
        Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop R2D4 <r2d4@stwars.com> - 2017-02-10 22:07 -0500
          Re: sudden shutdown and/or freezing of XP/ Win 7 Desktop VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-02-11 00:58 -0600

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