Recent content by boco77

I'm using my ipad to post this as well as a MacBook Air. There's lots of things that were connected to that same outlet as PC but they worked fine and never switch off themselves. Speakers, TV, 360, two external HDDs, router etc. I unplugged everything except the PC as I thought it might be...

I run it on a surge protected power strip. I've tried another power strip and its no different. It also doesn't seem to be a Windows issue either as I've just had it turn off within five seconds of it coming on itself. The worst thing it never comes back on manually so its hard to diagnose. It...

Would a socket suddenly start going wrong too? Everything else woks fine on the same socket.

Well I've tried plugging it into another room of my house and that didn't work. I also used a different plug block but no difference.

PC randomly shuts down doesn't come back on with power button. Sometimes will come back on by itself for 10 min then off again Hi, I've had this problem ocurring for the past two weeks on this barely one year old modern PC. Basically its been shutting off after 5-10 minutes all by itself and...

Thanks for the advice guys. Was just playing Gears of War and now the temp didn't go above 53-55 degrees celsius and thats a pretty intensive game.

I have a quad processor q6600 2.4ghz inside and 1hdd and a 2600xt ATI HD Radeon card on a P5k mobo. I was getting temperatures of 60 degrees celcius when idle and nearly 70 degrees when playing games, extracting files etc. Been like this since I bought this computer about 8 months ago. I read...