beelzerob
Senior Member
So my main HA PC suddenly has developed the habit of turning itself off. As in, a complete shutting down (like the power cord was pulled).
First guess was the power supply, so I replaced that and let it run for a little bit, and it turned itself off again too.
Second guess was memory. So I booted up with a windows memory test CD, and let that run. Well, at some point in that, it once again turned itself off. Of course because of that, I can't then look at the results to see if there were any failures.
It's possible that running the memory test turns off the PC when it hits a bad spot of memory?
I guess I can just sit and watch the thing while it does the test to see if it keeps happening at the same spot, or if any failures are logged before its demise.
Any other suggestions of how to troubleshoot this?
We did have the power suddenly turn off last night, and at least 2 tries where it clicked on and off before I went down and shut the main breaker until they got their act together...maybe that twisted something the wrong way.
First guess was the power supply, so I replaced that and let it run for a little bit, and it turned itself off again too.
Second guess was memory. So I booted up with a windows memory test CD, and let that run. Well, at some point in that, it once again turned itself off. Of course because of that, I can't then look at the results to see if there were any failures.
It's possible that running the memory test turns off the PC when it hits a bad spot of memory?
I guess I can just sit and watch the thing while it does the test to see if it keeps happening at the same spot, or if any failures are logged before its demise.
Any other suggestions of how to troubleshoot this?
We did have the power suddenly turn off last night, and at least 2 tries where it clicked on and off before I went down and shut the main breaker until they got their act together...maybe that twisted something the wrong way.