Driving me nuts

Macker

http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=18355


Same problem as this guy ,thought it was temps but running steady at 48 cpu
and 40 case ,last night I reinstalled Win 98 and it seemed to run ok ,I ran
DVD shrink for an hour and then burned 2 DVD's without any problems ,I left
the comp on all night ,came home from work ,did a bit of browsing ,left it
for an hour ,and all of a sudden it shuts down , ,still has lights on the
case and keyboard,won't reboot till I disconnect the power supply and replace it ,scanned several times with ,AVG ,The Cleaner ,Spybot ,Adaware ,and PCpitstop online virus scanner , nothing !
I did have a virus last week but after the shutdowns the clock would revert
to sometime in the 1980's (no wise cracks) ,time and date would be a mile
off ,The BIOS had to be reset to default ,thats not happening now

I also installed all windows updates,

PSU is a Q-TEC 400 w dual fan gold

I'm guessing a ram problem would cause reboots rather than a shutdown

Video card fan seemed to be runnig slow last week so I stripped it down added
a little light oil and it's flying now ,

That's all I can think of ,any sugestion would be welcome


Cheers

Macker

KdjaCL

Whats running on your system ?
Ctrl Alt Del and see what you have running, reduce them to the 2 you need ,buggered if i can remmebr names of the Explorer and one other is all win 98 needs.

I know Win98 doesnt like intensive programs.

Have you tried XP ?

kdjac

Macker

Yeah I have tried xp ,wasn't too keen on it ,only thing running on the comp now is explorer ,sys tray and anti virus ,93% resorces on bootup ,I may switch to win 2k.


Macker

The Muppet

Could be a power supply problem , it appears the power supply is shutting down . Could be something tripping the power good line either. Trial and error to find the cause but i'd start by changing the power supply. Systray and explorer are the 2 files 98 needs but i think you have a hardware problem .

tribble

I BET YOU 1 MILLION DOLLERS IT'S THE CMOS BATTERY.
seriously, i've seen this before, 'twas weird i bought 3 psu's before i diagnosed it.

ALSO BET A LESSER AMOUNT ON IT BEING AN MSI BOARD.
they are known (by me) to have battery relatd cmos problems which disables normal boot.

tribble

Macker

Yeah it's an MSI board ,so it's off to buy a battery

Thanks ,I'll let you know


Macker