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PSU dying?
I've had a problem a while ago about my hard drive just spinning it self down randomly causing the whole computer to just reboot. Since then I got a brand new hard drive thinking this would kill the problem but it is still there.
No matter what bit of the cable the hard drive is on, it is always Primary Master that will spin itself down.
For some reason I refuse to believe it's the motherboard that is stuffing up, because if it was the motherboard wouldn't it shut off everything that was on the Primary IDE channel?
Could it be a PSU dying? What can it be, I really can't figure it out.
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Is it powering down randomly? There's a setting in Windows and maybe your BIOS to stop the HD from spinning after a certain amount of time spent idling, to save power. Is it just doing that when you're idling, or when you're actually doing things?
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My computer used to randomly reboot itself. It wasn't random, of course. I think it probably made the hard drive spin down, but I can't recall. In any case, it turned out to be because of overheating. So you might want to check that.
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It usually cuts out when I'm "clicking around"(working, surfing etc.), although it has cut out before when the computer is just idling.
I don't think the problem is because of overheating. Sometimes it cuts out right after I've turned on the computer, entered Windows and started some program up.
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Okay, tried it out. It doesn't help.
Dang, if it's the motherboard, then I better prepare my wallet for the shock to come.
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Well I just tried a 340 watt PSU and after a few hours it just did it again. It never used to do it. Dangdiddlelido!
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