Hi
I've mentioned this before in another thread but my PC just switched itself off twice
the other day I turned on PC when I got in from work and it switched itself off just before boot menu.
I think a day or so later it switched itself off when it was loading openSUSE, i.e. after bootmenu
today it switched itself in the middle of writing a post. Then when i turned it on again it switched itself off after bios check etc as it was starting to draw the boot menu.
so I took side case off to see if much crud inside, and not much.
I unplugged and plugged back in graphics card, memory, and hard drives.
a week or so ago I did hard disk scans using proprietary boot cds for each hard disc (one samsung one Seagate) showed no problems and I ran memtest86+ no problems
if/when it happens again, what would be next thing to try?
I haven't got a spare suitable PSU.(650watt ezcool)
graphics card 8800gts 512mb ( i still have the old 7300GS)
mobo is asus a8n-vm
processsor AMD x2 3800
it's weird though that it hasn't happened while in XP playing Bioshock, Spore, Crysis, or Sims 2.
Missus said she was on PC most of today playing games so it seems unlikey to be an overheat or PSU issue.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Al