Yesterday I was just sitting on my computer doing my every day activities on my computer when it randomly shut down. I thought it just got unplugged but I was able to turn it back on. So I just continued when it shut down again after I entered the desktop after a few minutes. Then I checked the plugs and everything was connected. So I tried once more then it shut down again. So I left it alone for a while until my dad wanted to let him see Fruityloops 3 again (Google it, its neat) and then it shut down after we were done with it. So this morning I try (I thought it was overheating, it was really hot the night before) and this morning was normal so I try it, but it just shows up with the startup repair, and it says a required device is not accessible, or something of similarity to that. So I just continue booting and it says a registry in System32/config is corrupted or something similar to that. So I don't know what to do, and I can't play any of my games. Please help!
I am running Windows Vista. Sorry for the terrible structure of this thread but I need help soon since I need to get on it soon.
Have you reinstalled Vista? Run a virus scan and malewarebytes just to be sure there isn't something doing bad stuff to your computational box.
I had this same problem but when I bought a new case never had a problem with it again.
[QUOTE=Jah'maaun;25339195]I had this same problem but when I bought a new case never had a problem with it again.[/QUOTE]
How does that help?
Also, I might do a reinstall of Vista, but would it work if I er, "got Vista" by other means and used my key from my case? (I have a prebuilt, its shit, but still good.)
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[QUOTE=Jah'maaun;25339195]I had this same problem but when I bought a new case never had a problem with it again.[/QUOTE]
How does that help?
Also, I might do a reinstall of Vista, but would it work if I er, "got Vista" by other means and used my key from my case? (I have a prebuilt, its shit, but still good.)
Often you can't actually feel an overheat just be putting your hand near the heatsink, you should use CPUID Hardware Info to see your computers temperatures and post them here. This really sounds like the classic overheat scenario since an overheating computer will often just turn off without an error because the motherboard automatically removed power from the CPU because the heat exceeded the CPU's thermal limit (usually around 100C).
The problem now is that Windows/Config registry is "Missing or corrupted"
maybe a Registry Fixer or something could help? if so, what?
Also, if worse comes to worse I am going to go out and buy windows 7.
Do you shut down or turn on your computer a lot by pressing the button?
[QUOTE=Jah'maaun;25363741]Do you shut down or turn on your computer a lot by pressing the button?[/QUOTE]
No, but in the beginning it kept turning off, in my BIOS it said auto restart is off when a AC power failure happens but that has ceased and it hasn't been turning off. But I seriously need to boot and at least back up everything.
Also, who doesn't click the power button to turn on their computer?
For me my power button just started wearing out a lot and caused it to mess up and constantly hit the button to shut it down. My computer would randomly turn on in the middle of the night so I would have to flick that switch in the back that completely kills the power.
Does the windows sticker on my computer work as a CD key if I try to reinstall vista? I am not sure, since I have probably been misinformed.
I used to have that problem try running a antivirus scan or doing a system restore.
[QUOTE=Justice;25366504]What does that have to do anything? In OSes 2000 and above, pressing the button simply tells the OS to shut down (or perform what it was told in the Power menu in Control Panel.) It doesn't forcefully shut the PC down like it did in older OSes.[/QUOTE]
Actually if you hold it for about 5 seconds, it simply cuts the power to the computer, which can be bad since windows caches writes in memory by default, so if the cache hasn't been flushed, and you cut the computers power, that data you thought was written to the disk is lost. It's even worse if you have Automatic Cache Flushing disabled (optimal performance) since the cache is then only flushed when a program manually sends a command to do so, or you properly shut down your computer, vs timed intervals.
[QUOTE=Justice;25373846]Yes, I know of that, but I doubt he does [i]that[/i] to shut his PC down every time.[/QUOTE]
Funnily enough, quite a lot of people do, they seem to think that as long as you save open files like Word documents, nothing else should need 'saving'.
Ok, I found my recovery disks
I did a system restore from where I had installed a game a few days ago. But I am still witnessing shutdowns. It hasn't happened today yet, although I have been on for only minutes still. Anyways, help me with the shutdowns now?
I'd just go with a reformat. Many things could have led to it shutting down randomly.
It just shut down again.
Also, I just touched my heatsink, and yes I know that won't tell you the temp but it was so fucking hot I nearly burned by finger. The night before it was near 100 Celcius in speedfan last night (On Core)
Well there is your problem. When something gets too hot your computer automatically shuts down.
I just sprayed out my computer, seeing if this helped.
Also, the day the computer overheated, about 30 minutes before a moth had got chopped up in the fan, when I sprayed the comp. more little pieces of it came out.
Will report if I shut down again.
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Just shut down again, this time it took a little longer...
So a moth got caught in the fan?
[QUOTE=Jah'maaun;25388519]So a moth got caught in the fan?[/QUOTE]
I don't know where and I saw little pieces of what is most likely bug pieces. Just blew out the PSU fan in the back, hoping it might help.
not sure if someone said this already: but computers randomly shutting down is usually a sign of hardware overheat, so i would open that puppy up and give it a good dusting, if that doesnt work invest in a new case, there are some really nice yet cheap ones out there.
I don't think it's an overheat if you've cleaned out your computer. A dying power supply unit will cause your computer to shut down by itself. I'd say it's a safe bet it's your PSU.
I would recommend a few things....
1. Completely remove all dust from your computer case, inside and out.
2. Buy some new thermal compound and make sure your CPU heatsink is working correctly.
If the following doesnt help, you should buy a new cpu heatsink, make sure to post on here what socket you have (if you dont know, then post some basic specs about your processor).
check Event Viewer. If you're shutting down like me, it will have a critical error 43, kernel-power.
There's a bunch of hits on google for it, some say disabling a setting in BIOS will fix it, but I have tried all of them and I still get random shutdowns. I made a thread a few months ago about it, it could be PSU-related...
Don't use canned air. Take it somewhere with an actual air compressor, and "lock" all the fans with pencils or plastic probes or something; then blow the shit out of it on a non-conducting surface, then effect whatever backup+repairs you need to.
[QUOTE=27X;25394835]Don't use canned air. Take it somewhere with an actual air compressor, and "lock" all the fans with pencils or plastic probes or something; then blow the shit out of it on a non-conducting surface, then effect whatever backup+repairs you need to.[/QUOTE]
Why isn't canned air adequate? It's literally the same thing as air compressors you find at car washes, etc, except on a smaller scale.
I checked my PSU fan and it was really dusty, I cleaned it out, I haven't crashed yet (Today)
Will update to see if it was just to must dust in the PSU and its fan (It has never been cleaned out.)
are you actually taking the side off and doing it?
Yes...
Also I have not crashed at all yet :smile:
Good to hear. You might want to consider cleaning out the case every month or so, just to prevent this from happening in the future.
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