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Originally Posted by psychofan
I have a two years old HP Pavillion Slimline desktop s3000 (not sure exact model at the moment) that is giving me fits. For some strange reasons, the fan for this desktop is almost ALWAYS running. It's not a big deal at all. However, the last couple of times when I tried to run a complete antivirus scan of my computer, the scan would run for about 2 minutes then all of a sudden the computer just shuts down. Not a slow lack of activity shutdown process, but the entire system just "dies". It's like someone decided to pull the plug on the PC itself. Any ideas? I've used this computer to create DVDs of home movies before and once in a while, this sudden shutdown would occur (but not very often). No sudden shutdown with normal websurfing and game play (fan is again constantly running). Like I said, it has suddently shut down every time I run the antivirus scan and once in a while for DVD movie creation. I'm guess higher processing activity is forcing the sudden shutdown?
Any ideas on how to diagnose and fix the problem for someone who only has basic comprehension of computers.
OS is Vista.
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Heh.. I just realized this post is totally OBE. It's obvious that the guy was getting temperatures over 170F, which is WAY TOO HOT for his CPU.
Solution: Replace the CPU heatsink. They obviously have a sub-par heatsink on that CPU.
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