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Posted by BillW50 on January 5, 2008, 9:17 am
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Jason S typed on Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:07:56 -0800 (PST):
> I know this is a laptop forum, but it seemed like the best place to
> post to get an answer.
>
> My sister's Vaio desktop keeps spontaneously rebooting after about 2
> minutes. My first guess was over heating, cleaned out the fans...
> after a reboot I checked the bios HW monitor and the CPU temp was 92F
> and the board was 86F. I found 1 bad memory stick (out of 3) but the
> computer reboots with the other 2 (in the system individually). I
> find it unlikely that all 3 sticks would be bad??? The computer was
> running XP media ed. when the problem started , so I plugged in a
> spare hard drive with a fresh copy of XP pro (and the Auto Restart on
> system failure turned off) and the problem continued. No blue screen,
> just a restart. Any ideas????
I have some ideas...
1) Pull the battery out and run it on AC. A bad battery can draw a lot
of power and might be drawing too much.
2) The adapter itself could be faulty and it could be overheating.
3) Does it run forever when you turn on the computer and go into Setup?
Can it stay on running in Safe Mode? If so, get back to us.
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Bill
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