[mdlug] Entire computer stopped working

[Stan Green]

I know this will sound stupid, but have you cleaned the heat sink on the 
CPU's? DVD encoding is very CPU intense and can cause the CPU to get very 
hot. If not cooled, it can overheat and lock up the system. I have had this 
happen  on two different PC.  Now I clean them about once every 6 months.

HTH,
Stan Green
On Friday 01 February 2008 09:00, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> I had some trouble a couple days ago encoding a DVD for my Palm Pilot. The
> machine locked up hard (so hard the reset button didn't work, and I had to
> cut the power from the power supply) a couple of times.
>
>  The next night, it worked for one chapter, then I set it to work on
> another chapter and went to bed. The next morning, the screen was totally
> locked and I had to ssh in over Bluetooth from my Palm and shutdown the
> machine from there. Then, it failed to boot up again, locking up after the
> drives were identified.
>
>  I think I now know why it didn't work. Last night when I tried to boot it,
> I noticed that the BIOS was reporting only 1 CPU, though there are two
> there - Athlon MPs. I have to presume one of the CPUs failed, and I'll have
> to yank it and hope the other CPU is operational and I can boot the
> machine.
>
>  Prices for the 2GHz Athlon MPs are over a hundred bucks. I rather doubt
> I'll be picking one up any time soon.
>
>  Oy.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                              (313) 227-2317
>
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