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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / General Topics / May 2008Vista shuts down for no reason
Please help! I have Windows Ultimate and it is an HTPC (Home Theater PC). It has three tuners (HDTV Wonder, AverMedia A180, AverMedia 1500 MCE). It has an HIS 2600 Pro video card. When watching Vista MCE shows - it will just shutdown - not restart - the PC actually turns off. The BIOS is set to start up on a power failure - so it starts back up. I guess my question is why would my PC just decide to turn off? The CPU is a Quad core Q6600 - it is not running hot. The PC is home built and is an Intel DP35DP motherboard. This has only started recently - this did not happen before. I have no idea what is causing it. Please help! I have checked the logs - there is nothing - other than a log event saying the PC did not shut down correctly. Please help! Thanks You probably have either an underrated or defective power supply unit.  SignatureCarey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "RogueWarrior"wrote: Please help! I have Windows Ultimate and it is an HTPC (Home Theater PC). It has three tuners (HDTV Wonder, AverMedia A180, AverMedia 1500 MCE). It has an HIS 2600 Pro video card. When watching Vista MCE shows - it will just shutdown - not restart - the PC actually turns off. The BIOS is set to start up on a power failure - so it starts back up. I guess my question is why would my PC just decide to turn off? The CPU is a Quad core Q6600 - it is not running hot. The PC is home built and is an Intel DP35DP motherboard. This has only started recently - this did not happen before. I have no idea what is causing it. Please help! I have checked the logs - there is nothing - other than a log event saying the PC did not shut down correctly. Please help! Thanks The Power supply is new and running at 500 watts. The machine runs cool and happy - the all of a sudden (and almost every hour between 8-11 PM - very weird) it shuts down without warning. I hear the CPU fan spin up and then it shuts down. I have no idea what happens at that exact moment as thee is nothing in the logs. Please help! > You probably have either an underrated or defective > power supply unit. A new PSU can be very well defective. Have been know to do that quite often even when running cool. The give away is when the Hard Drive spins up . Spin up of the Hard Drive is the sign when system will shut down. SignaturePeter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. > The Power supply is new and running at 500 watts. The machine runs cool and > happy - the all of a sudden (and almost every hour between 8-11 PM - very [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> You probably have either an underrated or defective >> power supply unit. Also between 8-11 pm is a prime time for power usage and can cause what is called a brown out (a slight drop in power) this can effect lower quality or defective power supplies. A new PSU can be very well defective. Have been know to do that quite often even when running cool. The give away is when the Hard Drive spins up . Spin up of the Hard Drive is the sign when system will shut down. SignaturePeter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. > The Power supply is new and running at 500 watts. The machine runs cool > and [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> You probably have either an underrated or defective >> power supply unit. Hi, I'm having the same problem. Every hour the fan goes wild and... shut down. Workin' on it now, I'll post back. EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com http://ezinearticles.com/?Computer-Fan-Glitches&id=472171 SignatureAndre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry > Hi, I'm having the same problem. Every hour the fan goes wild and... shut > down. Workin' on it now, I'll post back. > > EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice > http://www.eggheadcafe.com I have Vista 64 Business (Norwegian) with the same symptom (restarts like reset has been pressed after a one-second spinup of the CPUfan). Here is the log for all events of this type: Feil 20.08.2007 12:32:08 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 11:32:11 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 10:31:28 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 08:44:15 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 07:44:21 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 06:43:59 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 05:43:38 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 04:43:24 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 03:43:03 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 02:42:48 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 01:42:27 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 20.08.2007 00:42:16 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 19.08.2007 23:42:09 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 19.08.2007 22:41:35 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 19.08.2007 21:41:15 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 19.08.2007 20:41:03 EventLog 6008 Ingen Feil 19.08.2007 20:27:43 EventLog 6008 Ingen As you can see it started two days ago and there is almost exactly one hour between each restart. This makes me think there has to be some process causing this - not HW. This is a serious problem for me! Any information is very much appreciated! Einar Naess. Signatureeinar.naess http://forums.techarena.in Temporary solution: Use system restore to uninstall the Windows Update patches installed around 15th August. My PC has been stable after doing this last afternoon. Einar Naess Signatureeinar.naess http://forums.techarena.in My pc shuts down when i play games on it. EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com That's a message. Heed it. <sigh> I love Egghead posters. </sigh> SignatureRichard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > My pc shuts down when i play games on it. > > EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice > http://www.eggheadcafe.com i have the same problem, but my computer doesn't just turn off, it goes into shutdown sequence after a few minutes of use. My pc shuts down when i play games on it. EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com Just curious, does everybody with these same problems have the same hardware? I also have a Q6600 on a DP35DP MB with Vista32. PSU 600Watt. Unfortunatly, my system restore starts october :( I don't believe in hardware failure! Cheers! |
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