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Originally Posted by MooseMan3000
Since you ruled that out for the laptop, however, have you considered your power source? And by that, I mean from the wall. Do you have the laptop in a power strip? If so, what else is on it that might cause a surge? Big things like refridgerators drain a lot of juice when they flick on, and that's been known to cause that sort of problem. I wouldn't think this would be an issue with a laptop, since it has a battery, but it might not switch to battery immediately. Could also be power surges in the building. Something to look into, maybe.
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yeah, its possible there's a short right where the source plugs into the laptop, but would it really happen only at peak useage? it seems kind of odd that it only happens when i'm using things at max performance, and then it goes for a while and then cuts off. yes, its on a power strip. and i'm pretty sure if it was power just going out, it would switch to battery. i've had surges and outages in the apartment and the thing went to battery immediately.
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Originally Posted by MooseMan3000
As for the desktop, I'm actually leaning towards the motherboard rather than the processor. While I would think the processor would run into problems before the motherboard in your case, the symptoms you're describing sound more like a mobo that's on its way out.
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its possible, i suppose. but this is the part that i was talking about -- i don't particularly feel like buying a new mobo and having the processor be the problem
and i don't have any spare parts (cept a HD) to test with, unfortunately.
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Originally Posted by MooseMan3000
Or it could be your power source (this time I mean the one in the computer). Have you tried, for example, switching the molex connectors between the slave and master hard drives? Or unplugging some optical drives, etc... I'm not sure exactly what you have running, but I've seen power sources go bad and cause issues like that before.
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i have no real reason to suspect the power source. the only thing that i have plugged into the computer when it powers off is a keyboard. it doesn't do it at any predictable moment -- it could be idle or it could be in the middle of some serious processing and file i/o.
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Originally Posted by MooseMan3000
It could also be the hard disk, but if that overheated, chances are you wouldn't be able to access it at all. I think you would know if you were having a hard drive failure.
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i can access the one with the OS on it, but the storage one (it was cheap) appears to be busted. or somehow majorly corrupted. i'm going to reformat it to see if i can still use it soon.
thanks for the quick response, btw.