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Old July 22nd 16, 01:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Default Is anyone else getting hard computer lock ups with this month's MRT.exe's full scans?

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support Ant wrote:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp Ron Hardin wrote:
Might be a heat shutdown, say if a CPU fan is broken.


Yeah, probably since I did more tests and was able to reproduce it after
about 30 minutes. Here is what I noticed so far:


PC & its top fan and its light turns off, but its power light stays
still on. Reset button didn't work, but power button did (turned on).


Tried:
-after 30 minutes on C: drive only with ATI video card's fan forced at
100% speed.
-after about 32 mins. after 5 am when cooler
-tried without screen saver and display sleep
-no crashes in quick scan


I am going to try Prime95, Memtest86, etc.


It might be heat related since the weather is hot.


Yep, it is heat related since I left the left side case open and ran 7.5
hours of MRT.exe full scan. And then, I tried Prime95's mixed tests and
that only lasted aboug 5 minutes.
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