I've noticed that this is likely to occur when there's much access to the h-disk, ex: when I'm performing a virus check or when I'm re-coding a film.\n\nCan an over-heating cause the problem?\nAny suggestion welcome.
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The main reasons for restarts: 1.bad memory 2.overheating (can either be processor or chipset)   Yours sounds as if it's your processor overheating, though, since it's usually happening when you're using your processor at or near 100% usage.  \n\nTry turning it on, then going into the BIOS, and check your temps there.  If it's idling much above 50°C in the BIOS, then that's almost surely your problem.  More than likely, you just need to go to Wal-Mart, and buy a can of compressed air, and blow all of the dust out of your heatsink.
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It sounds to me like the system may have suffered from a static electric discharge or some kind of elctricity has passed through the processor. I know this because the pins are black and it is usually cause from electrical burns from some source of electricity. You could have left the computer on during a lighting storm or you could have experienced a power surge or brownout or spike in your house. Now this does not happen immediately but over time it can cause internal parts to become like that.
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Make sure air is getting into your computer by means of many fans.\n\nAlso, while I have worked on customers computers, they have never had their computer cleaned out the entire time they have owned it. They get dust bunnies and "dust buffalos" in computer. Any dust getting on, in or around the CPU can cause it to over heat. If you know what you are doing, get a can of compressed air and clean out your PC yourself. If you don't, have a professional do it.\n\nMy computer will reboot sometimes as well, but that is when I am doing too much on my computer and my room is very hot.\n\nGood luck...
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i would also check for spyware, do a scandisk/defrag this should help
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this is a common problem.\n\nPC's generally heat up due to use.  Depending on the kind of laptop you have they may employ a passive cooling method (which tends to have overheating issues)  If your fan does come on that should be alright.  They make things for just this case, an example of one is the Chill Mat:\n\nhttp://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6211752&type=product&productCategoryId=cat08006&id=1074788100200\n\nIf your fan stops alltogether then it may be a cause for concern.  No cooling = melting internally
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i would be checking the cooling fan first.if it is not running thats your overheating problem.not knowing how old your box is?-what version of windows or are you using windows  makes it pretty hard for us to answer.have you overloaded it?have you done a recent defrag-there could be several reasons.
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I think Compaq's laptops are like that. I used to have a COMPAQ laptop now it's acting up too. I even had to replace the hard drive in the laptop back then.
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The same thing happened to me on my laptop.\n\nIt is possible you are running out of resources.  However the below is what happened to me.\n\nWhat was happening is that the programs you are using are cpu intensive.  This causes the cpu to heat up.  The most likely reason for this is that the fan on your cpu is not making good contact with the cpu itself.  This means that it does not draw off enough heat. When the cpu gets hot enough it will shut the computer down.\n\nYou can get "speedfan" (goggle it) which will tell you how hot your cpu is running.  However unless you know what temperature it will scram (or shutdown) at I don't know how much this will help you.  Basically get someone to reattach the fan.  They need to get some kind of heatsink compound to attach it.
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I suspect your burner is going bad. Best to take care of it while its still under warrenty. Most burners carry a 1 yr parts warrenty. It could also be simply a bad IDE cable. (That's the cable that connects the mainboard to the drive, used for communication.) \n\nIf its not one of those two - then two other possibilities are viruses which can cause the appearance of hardware failure - and harddrive (HD) problems which can give the appearance of all sorts of problems except the real culprit. \n\nChanging out the IDE cable is simple and fairly cheap (sub-$10) if you do it yourself. Testing your HD is easy and free - albiet time consuming - if you get the free utilities from your hard drive manufacturers website. \n\nAn online virus scan may or may not help you peg the problem if you have a virus. Run a anti-spyware/anti-adware utility while your at it for good measure. AVG is an awsome antivirus program available for free to home users (at their website, type free in the search box). Spy-bot and Ad-aware are two of the top three anti-spyware utilities, and are both available for download free. \n\nAfter that, your looking at needing to test a "known good" drive on your system, to see if its the burner or the computer itself. If its the burner, you should still be under warrenty. If its the system hardware, again, warrenty. However, if its software related, it may well be time for a reformat.
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might be that your cpu overheated....\n\ncould also be software issue..ie..spyware.\n\ncan also be your HD encountered bad error\n\n\nwhat am i trying to say?  that symptom alone is too generic.. could be a lot of causes
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You need to slow down your burn speed, or try shutting down any programs running in the background.  I had this problem, but now i use Sonic Audio i like it better.  But yea try what i said.
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Moving a computer doesn't normally cause that kind of problem, unless you dropped it or something.\n\nIf the hard drive is working, but is "wiped clean" (totally erased, operating system and all), or even partially erased, the most likely explanation is that someone (accidentally or on purpose) erased it.\n\nIf you describe exactly what happens when you turn the computer on, I might be able to help you diagnose the problem better.
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It may get overheated or some hardware is broken (it can be a HDD,RAM,Video card etc., I think the HDD has a problem). Try getting a hardware diagnostic tool.
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I don't know but the same thing is happening to my computer. So I'm going to stay posted on your question to see if anything helps.
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Have you done the regular maintenance stuff? Delete temp files (disc cleanup) and defrag? I would do that first. \nThen I would do another check by going to my computer, right click on C drive, click on tools, then check error checking check now. It won't do it until you restart. If that does not fix your computer then I would do the system restore.\n\nI would also run a spyware program to make sure you are not full of cookies.\n\nGood luck!
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Try hitting Ctrl+Alt Del and checking your system resources. Select tasklist and look at your Processes Tab then look at what is using the most CPU. If you can see something rising to the top ie.90+% then that could be the cause. \nAnother reason could be that something is overheating and could be taking 20minutes to reach lockup.\nAlso try switching off yer firewall temporarily. Software such as Norton can be quite sore on your pc. I had this happen on a laptop recently and switched to mcAfee and problem resolved. Lockups however in this instance where for 3-4 sec then ok for 10 or so then lock up again.
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close everything else out on the taskbar that you can  but first run antispy from yahoo and maybe the virus scanner  and clean the  disk and do a defrag a couple of times these things can get busy and lose their  processor power  but the other day i  watched a computer hard drive be eaten by a worm and some trojans it just lost all function as the hard drive was overwritten