Subj : Re: Is anyone else getting hard computer lock ups with this month's MR To : All From : ANTant@zimage.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:14 pm Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!n ews.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca 1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink ..com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:20:31 -0500 From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) Subject: Re: Is anyone else getting hard computer lock ups with this month's MRT.exe's full scans? Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public. windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support References: <57901FD3.1BD6@mindspring.com> <57921364.7D19@mindspring.com> <57937B39.13F4@mindspring.com> User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/4.6.4-201.fc23.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:20:31 -0500 Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.103.224.66 X-Trace: sv3-12sM+DZOHz0oz1rct+CMPenaVn7W3n1JeO4jwjSLychoj/+1NgZcjZAKNICsBcP4uD5ze/IuL1P a+45!I6o+TbtPCLiwijuXGD8l8T3RMthw2PsIxA4P7EQWR3jx0ohwZh5MtKYfXOpS1fCmEri8v90eJw 0J!uVMEfIZQIdQ0RotTnwvhe4TiDjT9ga0= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2830 Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:128827 microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware:10660 microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:31866 > > > > Yep, it is heat related since I left the left side case open and ran 7.5 > > > > hours of MRT.exe full scan. And then, I tried Prime95's mixed tests and > > > > that only lasted aboug 5 minutes. :( > > > > > Almost certainly the CPU fan, which gives a hard shutdown without warning. > > > > Well, the fan does still spin. Maybe it is not enough to cool it down > > since my room is hot (almost 90F degrees)? :( > This is the cpu fan not the general case fan. You might try blowing the dust off > of it. Or google your model and cpu fan and see what turns up. Somebody else will > have had the same problem. Yeah, that fan still spins. Maybe its old thermal paste is bad. I am going to have my hardware friends clean everything in my PC while getting the new tower ATX case. -- Quote of the Week: "I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots." --Isak Dinesen Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .