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What might be the cause for these random shutdowns?
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- 4 Feb 2010 03:51am #1
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Random Computer Shutoffs?
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CPU overheating possibly. Or it could be the power supply.
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- 4 Feb 2010 05:33am #3
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It could be a virus maybe? Or maybe Anti-Virus or Windows updates restarting the computer?
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I remember in CS:CZ where you could run admin commands to screw with their system. Including (from what I remember) shutting down their computer and opening the disk tray. Hahaha epic stuff.
If she isn't on CZ when it happens though, I would guess... Loose connections? <-Just to make my post somewhat legit, with at least a guess that might help haha.
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my room mate had this problem a few years ago, turned out to be a shit ton of dust sitting on his fan that burned a lil hole in his cpu i belive.. so yeah, prlly maybe overheating. Your kinda screwed if this is the case....
- 4 Feb 2010 09:34am #6
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Anybody else though that his girlfriend's other boyfriend walked in the room and she got busy doing something else than talking to him and found this simple excuse?
- 4 Feb 2010 09:37am #7
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Seems plausible. TNT's idea(s) is probably the reason.
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- 4 Feb 2010 02:55pm #8 SG Regular
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tnt's ideas are never correct. IF she wasn't lying to you, her computer is overheating. But since she is, she's just signing off of skype, broseph.
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Yeah, It's probably the CPU overheating. Thanks TNT
Originally Posted by trakaill Really guys.. Comon, she isn't just signing off, I've been over there and it's shut off on me several times and it says call dropped, not ended. Originally Posted by Wrathek
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She programed her PC to shut off at seemingly random times by the simple pressing of a hot key. You just happened to hit it.
She's lying to you bro.
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