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CMOS Battery

compbuilder00

compbuilder00

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I have been having random shutdowns lately and Have been wondering could all this be caused by The CMOS Battery going bad. Anyone else have any suggestions, I will listen.

Sean
 
Is this the rig in your sig?
By shutdowns do you mean suddenly the computer just shuts off?

Are you overclocking to get that 3.4 Ghz? Checked your ram for errors?

Lots of Xs in your rig, what's an Audigy 4 Xtreme Music?
 
So have you tried running everything at stock?

Is this a new system?

Does it shut down just when you're doing something like gaming or is it totally random?
 
The CMOS battery does nothing but retain the settings for your BIOS (system clock, memory and CPU clock speed settings, boot order, et cetera). Even if it was totally drained (I think even if it was removed) the system would boot, you'd just have to manually set everything each time you booted. Therer's almost no chance a bad battery will cause the system to shutdown, unless it like burst open and spilled goo on the mainboard which would probably cause bigger problems.

First test is for heat, regardless of what any temperature monitoring might say. Take the side off the case, point a household fan into it and see what happens. Use some compressed air to blow dust out of video card and CPU heatsinks, and out of the PSU and off the drives.

Check the Event Viewer in the Application and System logs and see if perhaps they provide any indication of the problem.

Do you have it plugged into a surge suppressor or UPS? Might just be voltage sagging below what the power supply can work with so it just shuts off.
 
Heat in idle is around 46c and under full load is 58c. The power supply I have is a thermaltake 430 and it is brand new. I blew out the dust when I upgraded my videocard, so there is now problem there. It is not plugged into a UPS, but is plugged into a surge suppressor. It just randomly shutdowns, for example in the middle of a virus scan, or just browsing the internet, it just restarts randomly. The event says there is a code 1003 and it is a kernal crash.


Sean
 
PSU could possibly be the problem. Thermaltake PSUs are not that great from what I hear although I've never owned one so take this with a grain of salt.
 
random restarts are usually RAM or PSU or it could just be someting loose - like the power cord, duuuh...
Power cords can be tricky - you think you have them pugged all the way into the socket on the PSU and it's not really seated at all. Deoxit Gold makes 'em slide in much easier... 😉


.bh.
 
Well I put in an extra power supply and the error stopped and know i get the error that says the page file error in paged file and when I boot up in the morning it says I have a checksum error. I think I can fix he checksum error by replacing the CMOS battery but how would I fix the page filer error.

Sean
 
yeah, if the voltage dips too low it will reboot. If your motherboard has any kind of voltage monitoring software you could try and use that, though you would have to get it to save the results. other than that i'd look at something like memory or cpu errors. memtest will tell you if your memory is ok
 
Well, I ran memtest on each memory dimm and i found that one dimm had about 162 errors which in my opinion is bad. Thnaks for all the help, Should this stop the sporadic restarts.

Sean
 
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