[jack-o-bytes]

Hi my unkles computer seems to keep cutting out. I think it may be because of temperature because it goes up to about 65c under stress but also when it cuts out the monitor for the computer turns off completely. It goes off and you have to press the button to turn it back on again. The computer speakers and screen are all running off one long extension cable and then in a 4 plug splitter. Could it be that the computer is drawing to much power under load. I have replaced the thermal compound and it didnt go down and the fan works fine. Also the heatsink doesnt feel like 65c when I touch it.

What does everyone think

Will the cpu be ok at that temp. Could the temp isue be from a bad sensor.
Do you think that the extension cable idea could be viable.

It is AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+
with 1gb RAM
160gb hard drive
dvd-rw

[Bichey]

do you have ups ?? is your computer earthed ??
don't use extension cables. Always plug to a wall socket

actually voltage fluctuations may create such problems

[dkdkdude]

Try flipping the switch on the back of your power supply to the right voltage you want, or mabey a sensor on the mobo is faulty and shuts it down. Or your OS has a problem. Try this.. When turning on the computer, press F5 (may be differnt for you) . and you will see a menu that says satrt windowsnormally etc... well there is an option where you can disable automatic power shutoff if the computer has an error.

Or it could be your memory, take it out and out it back in or buy new RAM.