[Techtalk] OT but I'm desperate.... Windows....!

[Mandi]

Check the CPU fan on that AMD processor, too.  if it's getting hot it
might be shutting down.  I'm not sure which rev of amd's processors
started doing that, but it might be worth a shot.


On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Meredydd Luff wrote:

> Check your power supply. If it's not rated for as much current draw as your
> computer is consuming, that could cause momentary power blips which will do
> weird things. True story: a very irritating member of my school (who was
> subsequently kicked off the net for abuse - stealing teachers' passwords, all
> very ugly) ran a HUGE machine off an underpowered PSU. As a result, something
> as trivial as making his computer work extra hard would make him reboot. So
> when he stole the IP of a server I administrate, we just flooded him with
> pings, SMB requests and jolts (none of which are "lethal" - they just
> stressed his machine), and down he went for a reboot.
>
> Does that help any?
> Meredydd
>
> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 17:49, Michelle Howson wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I hate to do this to you all, but it's 3am and my options are pretty
> > narrow...  I did a google as best I could, but nothing turned up.  So
> > here's hoping someone out there has an inkling what might be my problem.
> >
> > Simply, my primary box is a windows box, and it's taken to spontaneously
> > rebooting itself with no obvious cause - nothing freezes up, I'm generally
> > just sitting doing -nothing- and it will just reboot, flashing a blue
> > screen up far too quickly for me to see it.  It was happening a lot when I
> > was waiting for big print jobs from Acrobat Reader, but I thought it was
> > just Acrobat being horrible.  I've had Acrobat issues before.  So I
> > reinstalled - still happened too frequently to be normal.  No time to fuss
> > though, so just resolved not to print from Acrobat until I've figured it
> > out.  Except now it's happened from Word as well.  Tada - at least I'm
> > fairly certain it's a printer problem now!
> >
> > System information: home built computer...  AMD-K6 mobo 500mhz, 128mg RAM
> > (adding another 128 in about 2 weeks, can't wait).  New Geforce 256 video
> > card, old 3Com ethernet card, horrible old Cmedia sound monstrosity (anyone
> > out there got it configured properly? I'm still struggling)... aside from
> > the sound card, everything is functioning normally to the best of my
> > knowledge, hardware-wise.  Oh, the offending printer is an HP deskjet 690C.
> >  I have the correct driver installed... to the best of my knowledge....!
> > OS is Windows 2000 Pro, installation only a week and a half old.  XP died a
> > miserable death 2 weeks ago (still don't know why, though Acrobat reader
> > and printing issues were involved there as well) and so I rescued my data,
> > reformatted and reinstalled completely clean.  Oh yeah, 40Gb drive.
> >
> > um.......can't think of what else I should mention...........
> >
> > So, I think problem #1 is infact that I don't know what's going on behind
> > the scenes - because the blue screen flashes up so quickly and no other
> > errors appear, either before or after the reboot.  Can someone tell me
> > where to find a log, or something, that can bring some light onto that
> > matter, please?  Once I've dug up some error info I'm sure we may
> > actually get somewhere.  I just have NO idea where to look.  While I'm not
> > a computer newbie at all, I've managed to stay away from the innards of
> > microsoft's operating systems and normally I'm fine, things chug along and
> > I can fix most problems.  Not this one, no way....completely stumped.
> >
> > And all this at the worst time.  I'm working on a major uni assignment,
> > which is already late.  So this is advance warning that I'm short on sleep,
> > high on stress, and I may be a little less....  .  Can't think of the word.
> >  Oh I'm sure you all know what I mean, we've all been there at some point
> > or another.
> >
> > So.  #1 - error log or something similar to clue us all in
> > #2 - anyone experienced something like this?  Any known
> > problems/solutions?  Any bright ideas at all?
> >
> > I'm going to crawl off and get back to basics with a pen and paper, for
> > fear of losing hours worth of typing.  Look forward to hearing what anyone
> > has to say.  And again, my apologies for bringing this to a linux tech
> > spot.  I've been lurking for almost a year though, and from what I've seen
> > I'm pretty sure I won't get lynched :)
> >
> > the-completely-stressed-Michelle
> >
> > PS I'm also looking for a good HOWTO for getting an ethernet card
> > recognised and configured for a LAN under RH7.3, so pass a URL my way if
> > you know of one *grin*  See I'm not completely OT!  hehe
>
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