PC SWITCHES OFF AND REBOOTS ON ITS OWN HAPPENS WHEN THE MACHINE IS MAINLY BEING USED TO BURN DISCS

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  1. OROURKE

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    hello all I am new to the site and I am in desperate need of advice plz my brothers machine cuts out and reboots on its own mainly when he is burning discs it is intermittent and driving us both crazy any advice plz
     
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    Sounds like the rooster got hot. What are the CPU and motherboard temps?
     
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    thank you for your prompt reply he told me they are at 28 deg
     
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    do you have any other ideas plz
     
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    I fixed a PC for a customer a while back with a similar problem and it was a bad stick of ram. What took a long time to find was that it had to be pretty hot before it would act up and shut down the PC. Just something else for you to check.

    Jerry
     
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    If ya go to "Control Panel" then select "System" and go to advance then click the "Start up & recovery" settings button and untick the "Automatically restart" box you should get the blue screen next time it happens, that should detail the problem more.

    Also download M$ memory tester and see what that comes up with,

    http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

    Only other thing i think it could be is the PSU.

    Edit: Almost forgot how are you for anti virus/spyware programs?
     
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