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Keeps switching off - Ahhhhhhhh

Dundalk Daily · 2008-06-22 08:35:42

Bought a small Advent laptop for the wife about 4 months ago, I know it a budget machine but surely shouldnt be having the following issues. Machine keeps switching off at irregular intervals. At first I though it was her doing something and didnt give it much attention but I have used the machine several times recently…

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22-06-2008 9:35am

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Bought a small Advent laptop for the wife about 4 months ago, I know it a budget machine but surely shouldnt be having the following issues. Machine keeps switching off at irregular intervals. At first I though it was her doing something and didnt give it much attention but I have used the machine several times recently and it drives me mental.

I hesitant going back to PC World to get the run around for several weeks. I maybe able to sort it myself with the help of someone that knows a little about such machines.

It doesnt seem to be an over-heating issue as it can switch off after 5 mins or 5 hours. Funny thing is that if the machine has something running like downloading music for example I could leave it on for days and it wont go off.

I have looked at the obvious like loose connections etc

Can anyone help, is there anything I can look at on the system.

Thanks

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#2 22-06-2008 9:42am
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Could be dodgy ram.

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#3 22-06-2008 9:51am
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Thanks Sherifu. Is there any way I can check myself ?

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#4 22-06-2008 10:59am
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Dundalk Daily wrote: »

Thanks Sherifu. Is there any way I can check myself ?

Memtest is the most advanced memory testing tool, if your machine has windows vista do a search in start menu for memory diagnostic and run vistas own one which is decent enough aswell

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#5 22-06-2008 1:14pm
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yo yo thanks for that. I ran the Vista test and it came through ok, no issues according to that test. Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks guys

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#6 22-06-2008 1:34pm
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Check your power settings Start > Conrtol Panel > Power Options and see if you are set to go into hibernation. The scree,n hard disk and computer can be set here.

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#7 22-06-2008 2:06pm
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does it shutdown\restart when its on the battery or AC power? does it happen when you are running something that's using the CPU?

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#8 22-06-2008 2:31pm
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Do this First :
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055274237

It may find something before you have to go fiddling with ram

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