[andrewas]

It dosent shut down properly? You should have had it looked at under warranty. Thats usualy either a trivial problem or something fairly major.

Does it ever reset and then show the 'do you want to notify M$ dialogue? If so you should be able to get the stop code by going through the technical details.


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I did consider overheating, but that usualy occurs during gaming or other heavy load, and the damaged registry indicates it was during some kind of system maintenance that usualy wont run when the system is under heavy load.

You might want to run monitoring software, goto the motherboard manufacturers site or check the motherboard CD. Most modern motherboards are thermaly monitored. The average temperature should be around 30 and definately less than 50, and during heavy games must not go over 70-80. Most monitors sound an alarm when they go over the limit. Also the voltage from your PSU might be unstable/high/low , the same software can probably tell you that. Depends on your hardware.

[ 07-16-2003, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: andrewas ]