Subj : Re: Is anyone else getting hard computer lock ups with this month's MR To : All From : rhhardin@mindspring.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:14 pm Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!n ews.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca 1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink ..com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:12:02 -0500 Message-ID: <57937B39.13F4@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:12:09 -0400 From: Ron Hardin X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public. windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support Subject: Re: Is anyone else getting hard computer lock ups with this month's MRT.exe's full scans? References: <57901FD3.1BD6@mindspring.com> <57921364.7D19@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.54.71.88 X-Trace: sv3-9ULQs6l23Oa9ftyTZkQIJGqkX56k9qAFb2nR8ragh2BhStpNsFdChyi9+yBWeujd8T3Ic/EjiR6 e+gZ!M2LPnu8ype1M7aJNQmgYsrwCTAYzv9rInhxgKGRzL5ugzLtG5uWDd8C+NLKpt/gSsHjpeE9tKg rf!/NA4PYWi X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2187 Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:128821 microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware:10659 microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:31865 Ant wrote: > > In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Ron Hardin wrote: > > Ant wrote: > > > Yep, it is heat related since I left the left side case open and ran 7.5 > > > hours of MRT.exe full scan. And then, I tried Prime95's mixed tests and > > > that only lasted aboug 5 minutes. :( > > > Almost certainly the CPU fan, which gives a hard shutdown without warning. > > Well, the fan does still spin. Maybe it is not enough to cool it down > since my room is hot (almost 90F degrees)? :( This is the cpu fan not the general case fan. You might try blowing the dust off of it. Or google your model and cpu fan and see what turns up. Somebody else will have had the same problem. -- rhhardin@mindspring.com On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .