Liam
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I have had my computer about 18months now, and within the past week, it has been randomly resetting itself 
I've checked for spyware/viruses, and i cant find 1.
When it resets itself, the moniter, sometimes doesnt work, which made me think was it the monitor causing it to crash (short circuiting) 
I went out and left it on for about 20 mins, when i came back, on the screen, there was a message about frequency
I am starting to think, its something to do with the monitor cable  maybe the cable is broken inside the protective cover
Its at the point now, where im thinking of reformatting the PC, and starting again, just incase it is spyware, but my scanner cant find it.
If anyone has any idea what might be wrong with it, then could someone please help me 
Thanks. 
BTW - I have typed this, and its been fine, im not sure whether someone is fucking about with my PC, but it only happened, when a certain person in my MSN contact list is on, and he is a bit of a computer geek, hacking peoples MySpace accounts etc, could he be doing this 
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Brett
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Do you have a firewall?
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Melville
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ban said person 
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Steve
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highly doubtful someone is resetting it, spyware wouldnt do that, and if its a virus you will get a message saying your pc is shutting down.
Sounds like a hardware problem, overheating or something
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Liam
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Steve, i thought this to, when it reset itself, and the PC tempreture was about 55 maybe more sometimes, i cant see why all of a sudden started to overheat.
What do you suggest i can do, to stop it from overheating
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Liam
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quote:
Originally posted by loafofbrett
Do you have a firewall?
Yes.
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Steve
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increase the speed of your fans, improve cooling etc
thats if thats what is actually causing it though
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Liam
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quote:
Originally posted by Melville
ban said person
If it was said person, banning him, wouldnt make a difference. If he has access to my computer, he could shut it down wheter he was blocked or not.
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Steve
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he cant shut it down, unless youve done something stupid like enabled remote desktop and have a shit password or something
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Liam
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
increase the speed of your fans, improve cooling etc
thats if thats what is actually causing it though
OK. I think this might be the problem, how do i got about changing the fan speeds and also could i buy more fans, to make it even cooler.
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Steve
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there may be a little screw on the end of a wire attached to the fan, or you can do it in the BIOS.
have a look in your event log for indications of paging faults etc too
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Liam
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
he cant shut it down, unless youve done something stupid like enabled remote desktop and have a shit password or something
OK. my password to my computer isnt shit, and i dont have remote desktop enabled afaik.
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dna23
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Try...
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Should help you to monitor fan speeds, temperatures .etc and then modify them accordingly
Out of interest was the message:
"Horizontal frequency is out of range."
To sort that out see here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315614/en-us
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Liam
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I cant remember what the message says exactly but i will check out both the links etc.
Thanks guys. 
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Liam
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Installed that fan program, its saying my PC temp is 55 is that above average?
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Steve
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should be ok, intel or amd? amds can take the heat better
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Liam
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Intel, Celeron iirc.
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Steve
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could be anything getting hot, HDD, memory etc
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dna23
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Maximum Temperature list.
Intel Celeron Series
Intel Celeron 266-433Mhz 85°C
Intel Celeron 466-533Mhz 70°C
Intel Celeron 566-600Mhz (Coppermine) 90°C
Intel Celeron 633-667Mhz 82°C
Intel Celeron 700 - 850Mhz 80°C
Intel Celeron 900Mhz - 1.6Ghz 69 - 70°C
Intel Celeron 1.7Ghz and Higher 67 - 77°C
tbh find out what that message was or if you get it again jot it down and tell us
[Edited on 19-09-2006 by dna23]
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Liam
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Cheers for that dna, from that list, mine is cooler than what they say
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Liam
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And yes, ill jot it down, if/when i get it again
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dna23
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Yeah yours is fine from that list so the temp doesn't seem to be a problem, is your firewall configured correctly? Zonealarm allows different modes in terms of how 'visible' you are on the web.
Also spyware .etc I'd recommend doing a scan in safe mode... that way it'll pick everything up and use a variety of scanners some miss certain things What ones have u got atm? I have about 8  i'm paranoid though...
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Steve
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like i said it wont be spyware, possibly a virus but unlikely
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Liam
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What "free" spyware scanners do you suggest, im running just 1 atm, forget the name though
Im due an upgrade to the PC, getting more RAM, and a bigger HD soon.
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Steve
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it will not be spyware ffs spyware doesnt work like that
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