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pc alarm/shuts down

magick · 2004-10-27 20:59:37

the other day i took out the ide cable from the back of the cd rom drive in my pc , the reattached it closed the case (pc plugged out no power) and turned it on, everything was fine until the pc shutoff and i got the hardware alarm.No probs i though, probably knocked something out , so reattached everthing , pc boots up…

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27-10-2004 9:59pm

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magick

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the other day i took out the ide cable from the back of the cd rom drive in my pc , the reattached it closed the case (pc plugged out no power) and turned it on, everything was fine until the pc shutoff and i got the hardware alarm.No probs i though, probably knocked something out , so reattached everthing , pc boots up fine into windows, reads the hard drives/ram fine ,cpu fan active , but can work away on the pc for about an hour to 2 hours then the whole thing shuts off and the hardware alarm goes off again! weird, just reset the bios to see if that helps, any other ideas?

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#2 27-10-2004 10:02pm
Optikus

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Sounds like it possibly overheating ..did you knock the HSF at all? Is the fan spinning properly on it and all the time.. try running a stress test like prime95 and watch the fan to see if its going slower or stops.

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