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Have you tried a different power outlet at your house? Maybe your actual power isn't stable at home.

Maybe you should stay in a hotel tonight should your house burn down....

I'd put it on a battery (UPS) and run to see how that goes.

Is your computer getting enough ventilaztion that it's not overheating where ever you have it?

Do you have anything over clocked? If you do, you might want to remove all that.

Try a different keyboard/mouse for fun. I'm not familar with that brand for your motherboard.

I was just thinking bout the power sockets, in the house that is, had no sockets placed around the house a few months ago.. but the other computer worked fine at the same point. SO i will try that either way when i get home from work.

battery ? i dont have one of those.

not overheating, was very cool in the room last night when it went down again...

nothing overclocked..

mouse keyboard... i was thinkin maybe trying that too as i have a usb mouse, which my friend didnt... seems weird the way it just shuts off like that... if it is a problem with the USB sockets i would assume the mother board is sorta screwed..


but thanks for your opinions, im glad someone else is sorta thinking along the same lines as me..



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Asrock generally are a genuine piece of shite, so it's definitely a suspect, but I'm inclined to go with an overheating problem, although it seems to be intermittent.

Download MBM5 and see what happens to your temp/voltages over a few hours doing various CPU intensive tasks. That'd probably be a good start.

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ok ive gotten home
i plugged into a different socket set, no crash yet, i installed mm5 but i dont think it supports this motherboard, i hazard a guess at what range it was but it was saying the cpu was running at 129 celcius, which i dont think would be the case otherwise id be smelling buring or something... thats hot in anyones book

so i installed hardware sensors monitor and its saying the following...

cpu 70 celcius, 1 degree either way
voltages...
+12V : 11.25V
+5V : 5.03V
core : 1.63V
I/O : +3.3V

not sure wot any of that means...

i guess i will go check out the other sockets now, plug it back in,.. see if it crashes hope it does


If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

That's extremely hot. You should be in the mid 40's, low 50's at the most for a 2.6 Celeron.

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Thanks guys, you've been immensly helpful... Ive been using computers for a long time now, prolly not as long as you guys, but never the less, i must be the only person who has gone 10 years without a faulty pc purchase till now lol..

well i plugged it in the sockets that seemed to be the crash problem, but that doesnt mean anything coz last time it ran for a hour before i jus continually crashed, as with regards to the heat.. im almost 100% sure its giving a wrong reading, coz ive had it running a hour now, same temp... i even blew a small fan into there for 15 mins and its not changing the temp, i turned off the machine and touched the the heatsink it was almost cold the the touch.. the cpu is fine, i double checked that yesterday, hell i even cleaned it all off, and put a big ol blob of silver thermo compound to make sure and attached it, im watching the fan now spin on top, not a expensive heatsink, but i dont overclock so really dont need one dont think... im gonna go now, visit me mother in hospital, leave this running, downloading what it was yesterday before it went cookoo on me, see if it does it again, ive noticed also that when i press the power button i dont need to hold it down 10 seconds no more to boot it.. so hopefully i will come back in a couple of hours and give u a positive update, hopefully...

have a good day

If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

ok i didnt reply anymore coz it kept doing the 30 seconds after loading crashing again, put the graphics card in a friends pc nothing, put there graphics card in my pc still crashed, dissassembled, put the processor in a older pc, ran sandra soft burn turn over nite, computer still running after 8 hours..

seems like a faulty motherboard..

thanks for the help

If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

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this one, but i think we can rule out the psu as that was the third one i tried, first one being a 250watt didnt boot it at all, the 300 did boot but crashed still, as did the 550, like i said, processor, hard drives, graphic cards, cables, psu everything apart from the mother board in a different machine worked pucker for 9 hrs straight, doing sandra soft burn test 10 times over without a single hick up..

so being that its 99.99999999% likely to be the motherboard, should I get a replacement board, or add more money and get a different brand, as you guys saying asrock sucks.. any brands i should look out for ?

If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

You should not put too much thermal compound on, too much and it acts like an insulator. Probably not the cause of problems but you should sort it out anyway.

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A P4 VIA Terrible 8+ board?

You could have saved money with an Athlon XP system and an SiS chipset board, and likely had a mediocum of stability.

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I'm being completely straight with you: a cheap SiS chipset board would have likely been more stable and just as inexpensive. If you needed to save money, I would have considered the CPU as a good place to cut cost.

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No problemo here no more, got rid of the mb, well traded it in for a ASUS P4P800-X

its true, u pay for what u get nowdays in computers, never gonna try and cut corners no more, brand name products from now on...
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