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[strredwolf]

Luke is having a lousy day. --Richard Cheeze, Star Wars Cantena.

No love out to Millenium Digital.  Yesterday, I was down between 12:30pm and 10:30pm because of a large outage.  Today, between 9am and 2pm due to FCC mandated maintance (at least they gave me a deadline for when it better be up).  It doth not please thee and thy boss.  It also doth not please thee that thy phone service (Verizon) still hasn't gotten DSL out into thy neck of the woods.

And to boot, tygris my main rig is down (which makes the purchase of the newer laptop timely).  It stays up for 30 minutes at a time, and just shuts down.  I'm not sure if it's my motherboard or not.  I can switch out a power supply, thankfully.  I may have to start pricing good NVidia-chipset mobo's, though.  I have no love for VIA based motherboards.

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[xaviusarchangel.livejournal.com]

I would have thought that you'd have known better than to use a VIA-based motherboard...

*Johnson reaches for a familliar-lookin' mallet...*

Hehe, but actually, I wonder what is up with VIA. Back in the days of Windows 9x I personally used a plethora of motherboards, many of them with VIA chipsets and I never once had a problem with them. Atleast never a problem that couldn't be easily remedied somehow. Yet since Windows 2K I've heard nothing but bad things about VIA chipsets. From what I can tell they are pretty much worthless to anyone wanting performance out of them while running under XP.

I love my nForce 2. The only trick to keeping it happy is regular driver updates.

Speaking of which... *checks to see if there's updates available* :)

[kesarra.livejournal.com]

Ah, the mysterious shutdowns. Is it the mobo? The power supply? Overheating cpu? ... Pick a card, any card.

My laptop is down because of mysterious shutdowns. I even bought a new power adapter, which I can't afford, but still get the shutdown.

[kisai.livejournal.com]

Laptops are supposed to shut down [unsafely] when they overheat, otherwise they might start smoking and catch fire, melt someones privates, or catch the bed on fire.

In a chasis, at least the chasis itself acts as a bit of a fire separator, and there is space between the motherboard and the chasis for airflow, so the chasis doesn't get hot. In a laptop... well let's just say I've experienced the problem of random shut downs. Can of compressed air, 30 seconds later, all fixed.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

The board was bought before the XBox existed, which tells you something there.

Why I mention the XBox? Well, NVidia created the chipset for it when Microsoft had it's prototype using AMD chips. MS switched to Intel. Nvidia made a different version for the XBox and started selling the AMD versions to mobo manufacturers.

[kesarra.livejournal.com]

I don't think that's it. I've had the laptop run for 3 days straight before I get the shutdown. I've also had it do so in the boot screen and right after login.

[kisai.livejournal.com]

The manual for the laptop says it's designed to shutdown when it gets too hot.

Like physically enter the "powered off" state. As opposed to hanging or freezing.

If you've never blown the dust out of the laptop, try it, though be careful not to make the fans spin faster then they would normally or it will damage them.