On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:34:05 +0100 javadayaz wrote: > Hi. > For the past two days my pc has been mysteriously shutting down. Not > powering down!! Straight power off. > My thoughts are that this probably because of heating issues...but > that's just an uneducated guess. It might as well not be. > Are there any diagnostic tools I can run to find the culprit?
In my experience, but yours may be different, when a CPU gets too hot it becomes unstable. The only time I have had a system actually shut down without warning like your description is when the power supply was overheating due to poor ventilation. Grant. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/