Auto Shutdown??

I have a SY-K7V Dragon + motherboard. I'm running an Athlon XP 2100+ processor.

The last few days have been rather warm in Maine. I'm talking mid to high 90's Fahrenheit.

The other day I had my computer working compiling a program. I left the room for awhile, and when I came back, as I stepped into the room, I heard my computer do it's POST check. As it tried to restart, it suddenly did another reboot, etc, until I switched off the power supply.

I do have my computer set in it's bios so it will auto-shutdown if the CPU fan quits. I DID have it set so that if the power went off and came back on it would restart, but in light of the recent occurrence, I changed that so it would stay off.

Seeing as how my CPU fan seems to be working perfectly, does this mean it's my power supply? It's a fairly new computer, built from a barebones kit. I'm pretty close to having the 350 watt power supply maxed out.

Or is there some feature that will turn off the computer if the CPU overheats? It was about 60-65C due to workload and heat that day. Case fans are definitely in my future.

David

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In article <> , carney1979
@hotmail.com says...
> I have a SY-K7V Dragon + motherboard. I'm running an Athlon XP 2100+ processor.
>
> The last few days have been rather warm in Maine. I'm talking mid to high 90's Fahrenheit.
>
> The other day I had my computer working compiling a program. I left the room for awhile, and when I came back, as I stepped into the room, I heard my computer do it's POST check. As it tried to restart, it suddenly did another reboot, etc, until I switched off the power supply.
>
> I do have my computer set in it's bios so it will auto-shutdown if the CPU fan quits. I DID have it set so that if the power went off and came back on it would restart, but in light of the recent occurrence, I changed that so it would stay off.
>
> Seeing as how my CPU fan seems to be working perfectly, does this mean it's my power supply? It's a fairly new computer, built from a barebones kit. I'm pretty close to having the 350 watt power supply maxed out.
>
> Or is there some feature that will turn off the computer if the CPU overheats? It was about 60-65C due to workload and heat that day. Case fans are definitely in my future.
>
> David

It could be a number of things causing that, over heating being one of
them.

Try opening the case and place a house fan blowing into the system to
see if that causes the problem to go away.

Doug

In article <> , carney1979
@hotmail.com says...
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:09:44 -0600
> Doug G. <> wrote:
>
> > In article <> , carney1979
> > @hotmail.com says...
> > > I have a SY-K7V Dragon + motherboard. I'm running an Athlon XP 2100+ processor.
> > >
> > > The last few days have been rather warm in Maine. I'm talking mid to high 90's Fahrenheit.
> > >
> > > The other day I had my computer working compiling a program. I left the room for awhile, and when I came back, as I stepped into the room, I heard my computer do it's POST check. As it tried to restart, it suddenly did another reboot, etc, until I switched off the power supply.
> > >
> > > I do have my computer set in it's bios so it will auto-shutdown if the CPU fan quits. I DID have it set so that if the power went off and came back on it would restart, but in light of the recent occurrence, I changed that so it would stay off.
> > >
> > > Seeing as how my CPU fan seems to be working perfectly, does this mean it's my power supply? It's a fairly new computer, built from a barebones kit. I'm pretty close to having the 350 watt power supply maxed out.
> > >
> > > Or is there some feature that will turn off the computer if the CPU overheats? It was about 60-65C due to workload and heat that day. Case fans are definitely in my future.
> > >
> > > David
> >
> > It could be a number of things causing that, over heating being one of
> > them.
> >
> > Try opening the case and place a house fan blowing into the system to
> > see if that causes the problem to go away.
> >
> > Doug
>
> ...and if it does not go away, then I can assume it's the p/s?
>
> David

It could be. Or the memory, video card, some other device connected to
the system, even the motherboard. If it was working fine then just
started this out of the blue, then something has failed. You will have
to go through the process of elimination until you find the culprit. The
power supply is a good place to start for such a problem.

Doug

Had the same problem. I remove the heatsink and cleaned both the chip and
heatsink. Re-applied thermal compound and it has been fine since. I think my
CPU is flakey or this stupid board.



"carney1979" <> wrote in message
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> I have a SY-K7V Dragon + motherboard. I'm running an Athlon XP 2100+
processor.
>
> The last few days have been rather warm in Maine. I'm talking mid to high
90's Fahrenheit.
>
> The other day I had my computer working compiling a program. I left the
room for awhile, and when I came back, as I stepped into the room, I heard
my computer do it's POST check. As it tried to restart, it suddenly did
another reboot, etc, until I switched off the power supply.
>
> I do have my computer set in it's bios so it will auto-shutdown if the CPU
fan quits. I DID have it set so that if the power went off and came back on
it would restart, but in light of the recent occurrence, I changed that so
it would stay off.
>
> Seeing as how my CPU fan seems to be working perfectly, does this mean
it's my power supply? It's a fairly new computer, built from a barebones
kit. I'm pretty close to having the 350 watt power supply maxed out.
>
> Or is there some feature that will turn off the computer if the CPU
overheats? It was about 60-65C due to workload and heat that day. Case fans
are definitely in my future.
>
> David
>
> --
> _____________________________
> Registered Linux User #236545
> Registered Machine #203671