Brocktune
New Member
Do late-model Athlons have an internal sub-routine running that shuts down the processor when its temperature goes too high?
A friend's computer is shutting down every 15 minutes. Not gracefully or anything, it's not going into supsend, it's literally shutting down completely like you held the button in.
It's only started happening since it's been getting hot out. It's consistently 10 - 15 deg. warmer in his house than in the winter or spring, so we were thinking it was an emergency shutdown due to high temp. He's running XP, and it doesn't log a shutdown when it happens, so we're pretty sure Windows has nothing to do with it.
A friend's computer is shutting down every 15 minutes. Not gracefully or anything, it's not going into supsend, it's literally shutting down completely like you held the button in.
It's only started happening since it's been getting hot out. It's consistently 10 - 15 deg. warmer in his house than in the winter or spring, so we were thinking it was an emergency shutdown due to high temp. He's running XP, and it doesn't log a shutdown when it happens, so we're pretty sure Windows has nothing to do with it.