OT: system shuts off sporadically

[stu]

On Monday 16 January 2006 22:05, tigerflag wrote:
> On Monday 16 January 2006 03:22 pm, Vaughn Treude kindly wrote:
> > Thanks for the ideas, Craig, Miles, Austin, and Cat.  I think the CPU
> > fan is OK, and the CPU temperature was good at least when I first
> > powered it up.  Unless the fan is randomly stalling out, I doubt it's
> > heat related, since the timing is so sporadic.  (Then again, the fact
> > that it sometimes won't come up for a couple of minutes does make it
> > seem heat-related.)  So far it's been up and running for 2 hrs now.  The
> > next time it shuts itself off I'll open it again and look at the caps.
> > I didn't notice any capacitor gook when I had it open earlier but I
> > wasn't looking for that either.  :-)  If all else fails, I'll send it
> > back for warranty service.
>
> This has me curious. These things can drive you crazy, I know. At some time
> or another I've experienced almost everything all you geniuses suggested.
> Let us know what it turns out to be.
>
> Siri Amrit

I know this is a bit late to chime in, hopefully you have the roblem sussed by 
now, however, I had the same problem with an AMD Proc just a few weeks ago. I 
used heat sink "tape" instead of the usual compound paste. Removing the tape 
and replacing it with the paste cured the problem.