Why is my desktop shutting down (power off) on its own after an hour of operation?

Discussion in 'Desktop Operation' started by debracoker, Mar 29, 2011.

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  1. debracoker

    debracoker New Member

    This is what I've done:
    1) reformatted hard disk and reinstalled OS
    2) Scanned for virus
    3) Cleaned the processor heat sink/fan. Reapplied new heat dissipation paste under the heat sink.

    BTW, its a P4 processor, running on XP. Hope to get more leads as I'm running out of ideas. Cheers. Thx.
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator ISPConfig Developer

    Maybe it is a temperature problem, causing the system to shut down automatically to cool down.
     
  3. Linusr@flanders

    Linusr@flanders New Member

    Hi,

    Some thoughts, though ... xp/windows is not my forté/fav ...

    You re-installed everything, so...exclude a virus (well, there is a debate werther windows itself is a virus :) but that aside). By the way, a modern virus will keep your system going, as shutting down is "leaving a trace" of its presence and it would disrupt it's own job.

    The question is : who/what shuts the pc down? If it's the os, then you'll not get any restore messages at reboot, if it is the hardware (heat/electrical/...) the os would not have the time to cleanly unmount/shutdown and that would manifest itself in some parts of the system. In w98 (yes, it's that long ago I used windows) there was the disk check (blue screen) ...

    A clue?

    Luck!

    Thor
     
    Last edited: May 25, 2011
  4. erosbk

    erosbk New Member

    Are you using the PC when it poweroff? the OS makes a shutdown or it looks like if you unplug the power? try to be a bit more specifyc pls
     
  5. servermonitoring

    servermonitoring New Member

    Its not software problem may be its due to hardware problem check the processor sit correctly or else it may due to motherboard problem
     
  6. sunny12345

    sunny12345 New Member

    i think that you did n't paste well sometimes it happened. so i hope that if u re paste may be that will be help you out.
     
  7. jasonorland88

    jasonorland88 New Member

    in case you didn't know this so have you tried to go into the power option cause there's option to set processor power management so by default the minimum set to 5% and maximum is set to 100% so i think there's a chance that cpu can't hold onto the 5% so increase the value to 8% and try to load something if system doesn't restart then wait for in idle state
     
  8. avabrian

    avabrian Banned

    shutting down (power off) on its own after an hour of operation?

    Most of the times this problem occours when heat sinker is not attached properly and proccessor is getting heat up too much this could also damage your proccessor badly. Attach the heat sink properly with paste and make sure fan is working too.
     
  9. hereinoz

    hereinoz Member

    With a machine that old you really have to include the power supply in the list of suspects as well as all the others listed above. If it is a straight "power off" type of shutdown, with no restart after it, then replace the power supply.

    It sounds like a heat issue, and if it is a P4 with the original power supply, that PSU is getting towards 10 years old. Replace it and see what happens.
     
  10. pyaramosam

    pyaramosam New Member

    in case you didn't know this so have you tried to go into the power option cause there's option to set processor power management so by default the minimum set to 5% and maximum is set to 100% so i think there's a chance that cpu can't hold onto the 5% so increase the value to 8% and try to load something if system doesn't restart then wait for in idle state???
     
  11. edge

    edge Active Member Moderator

    Verry old thread and about windows XP.... Locked..
     
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