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system shutdown

i have a system here that shutsdown abruptly from time to time, i have reinstalled the sytem, but that did not work. What may be the solution to this?

rid

"Shuts down", like, how? Power down? A freeze?

A bit more detail may help you getting help.
1) What O/S?
2) Something about the hardware setup, please.
3) The symptoms you encounter when it happens.
4) Does it happen regularly, after a while or totally at random?

Check power supply fan.

Regards
/RID

jhance

This is almost always caused by BAD HARDWARE or IMPROPER CONFIGURATION of good hardware.

Fix your problem and the system will stop shutting down spontaneously.

ABAKY

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it is a Windows 2000 professional system, it shutsdown about 4times daily.The board is a gigabyte board, it just restarts the system at intervals.

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Vic54

if this issue is still open i would like to help you out.
first i want you to go to your control panel, administrative tools, and then event viewer. in the evnt viewer i want you to highlight the word system on the left pane to view system events. there should be an ERROR entry at the times your system rebooted. if you need help in reading this event log, you can send it to me at vicd54@earthlink.net and i will look into it. to save the file, ust highlight "System" ad thengo to the menu bar where you see action, and under action you will have the option to save log file as...

let me know if you need further help.

Piri

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