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Laptop crashing
#187491 - 26/09/05 03:37 PM

Hello,

I have an Acer Aspire 1660 laptop with 3.4GHz, 2Gb Ram and 60Gb 7,200rpm hard disk in conjunction with the Edirol FA-101.

On the whole this system works very well, fast and powerful, however, sometimes it just randomly turns itself off. There's never any warning, no blue screens, no busy hard drive noises, it just suddenly goes completely dead.

As far as I'm aware there arn't any regular processes or jobs I'm undertaking when this happens; the majority may occur during high processor load sessions, and when it does die it often feels very hot at the back.

Does anybody have any ideas what the cause could be here? could it be an overheating issue? As I say it does feel hot when it dies, but then it's hot most of the time, and the fans nearly always on...it's quite noisy really!

Suggestions/ideas welcome!

Cheers,

Chris

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#188946 - 29/09/05 08:20 AM

sounds like a hardware conflict, check for bad ram.

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Re: Laptop crashing new

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#188951 - 29/09/05 08:28 AM

The P4 should clock throttle to reduce the temperature if it's getting really too hot. Of course with a laptop everything is in close proximity and so the heat from the CPU could be affecting another part of the system. Do you have it well ventilated, as in, is there plenty of air around the laptop that can move about?

I'd suggest running Memtest86+ to check the RAM and then something like Prime95 to stress out the CPU. It's best to run these things over an extended period, so don't try them until you don't need to use your laptop for a good few hours (eg overnight). Any error is bad news.

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Re: Laptop crashing new

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#189038 - 29/09/05 11:00 AM

As far as I'm aware there's enough air, I have the back sat on a few things to get it off the desk and to allow air to circulate underneath, in case this is the problem, but it hasn't really made a difference, I shall check the ram...

Cheers,

Chris

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