A bit of info before I go into my problems:
I've had my motherboard lying caseless for about a month, but I should have a new case for it tomorrow or the next day. As it has been open to the room I have had to be very careful around it so I don't knock it accidentally and fuck something up. Yesterday my mother decided it would be a good time to clean the house and she moved it around a bit to get under it and behind it, which wasn't a big deal except for some reason it caused my clock to be about a year and a half off, and I had to flip the PSU switch on and off to get it to start up again. Otherwise the only thing that would happen is the time/date would be a couple hours off when I switched it on after a few hours off.
However, a few minutes ago I was browsing FP and the computer shut down without provocation. Not sure what could have caused it. The only reasons I can think of is:
CPU overheat (I checked and it's actually unusually cold)
PSU fucked (Seems most plausible given what happened earlier, but doesn't explain time/date changes)
Something about the BIOS (Honestly don't remember exactly what this does but it would probably explain time/date changes iirc)
Also my clock is 10 min forward for some reason.
[editline]23rd January 2011[/editline]
Shut down again. Clock is now 1 hour 45 minutes ahead.
[editline]23rd January 2011[/editline]
Again. I'm blaming the PSU right now.
Anyone who is more knowledgeable?
Nobody? This is my only computer so I'd like to know if there's anything I should replace first if it goes down completely.
The time changing sounds like it could be the CMOS battery dying / knocked out
Check that it's in properly
This is embarrassing.
I found a piece of plastic wrapper from a twinkie thing next to the board. I think it was causing a short circuit.
Ahem. I could be wrong though.
We have a technical support section for this.
It looks like your PSU got disconected while your cmos battery was empty/loose for the time issue.
The overheating could be caused by the heat sink comming loose causing your cpu to overheat while the heatsink remains cool.
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[QUOTE=Applecrap;27628234]This is embarrassing.
I found a piece of plastic wrapper from a twinkie thing next to the board. I think it was causing a short circuit.
Ahem. I could be wrong though.[/QUOTE]
as far as I know plastic doesn't conduct electricity :)
[QUOTE=QuAtT;27632183]as far as I know plastic doesn't conduct electricity :)[/QUOTE]
It could be MAGIC plastic...
Also, that's probably it. Computers don't like that sort of thing.
[QUOTE=QuAtT;27632183]as far as I know plastic doesn't conduct electricity :)[/QUOTE]
Yes but you know how static electricity fucks with that plastic when you've touched it. Anyway I assume it must have been that as it is now fixed after I removed it.
I thought this thread was dead anyway.
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