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To: texas booster

I don’t know what is going on with my comp. lately. Every morning I wake up and it has restarted. I then have to reopen my WU’s...again.


6 posted on 05/04/2008 8:54:35 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold
We will need help from others on this one. I will be gone for much of this week.

Tell us about your systems - speed, memory, etc.

Usually restarts are due to memory problems or power supply problems, occasionally due to BSoD.

I have my systems set to auto-restart when power goes out and I have F@H set to run in the background as a service. At least then you wouldn't need to restart it every morning, until we figure out the reasons for the problems.

8 posted on 05/04/2008 9:00:54 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: processing please hold

I used to have restart problems in the heat of summer on one of my machines. Running FAH at 100% would cause spontaneous reboots due to high CPU temperature if it was warm in the house. Doesn’t seem likely this would happen at night like yours, but it might be worth a check.

Do you have a utility to check the temperature of the CPU? I use MBM5 to monitor the problem machine and it can be set to keep a log.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311

Throttling the CPU to 90% for a month or two in hot weather worked for me until I got a better cooling fan.


44 posted on 05/04/2008 5:41:00 PM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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