[SOLVED] PC shutting down suddenly

[Hootiegibbon]

BP,

After about 5 minutes open a Konsole/Terminal and type 'acpi -V' without the quotes, so long as acpi is active this will give some good info

You can also use 'top' to see if any app is causing any cpu or ram issues

Jase

[Was_Just19]

BP,

After about 5 minutes open a Konsole/Terminal and type 'acpi -V' without the quotes, so long as acpi is active this will give some good info

You can also use 'top' to see if any app is causing any cpu or ram issues

Jase

Not if he has a darned Dell like me ......

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$ acpi -V
No support for device type: power_supply
No support for device type: power_supply
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 0
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 0
 

[Hootiegibbon]

BP,

After about 5 minutes open a Konsole/Terminal and type 'acpi -V' without the quotes, so long as acpi is active this will give some good info

You can also use 'top' to see if any app is causing any cpu or ram issues

Jase

Not if he has a darned Dell like me ......

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$ acpi -V
No support for device type: power_supply
No support for device type: power_supply
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 0
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 0
 

Just19,

Some machines are just plain awkward, there will be a folder/file that will be called 'thermal_zone' in either /proc or sys/ on ibm's this can be located at /proc/acpi/ibm/[loction of all the interesting things] most of the temperatures can be checked by using the cat command on the thermal zone files.

Another good application is called saidar (its provided by a package in the repo) which is a little more verbose in system information.

Jase

[Was_Just19]

None are any good on a lot of Dell machines .....  they do not give anything access to temps apparently. I seem to have one of those Dell PCs 

The good news is that I have just received (tonight) a 'dumped' Dell XPS .....  Core 2 Quad processor @ 2.6 Ghz with 4 GB ram (I think one stick is faulty). It was dumped thinking the motherboard was faulty ......  but it now runs PCLOS from a USB stick 
This Dell can even be overclocked!

I have yet to get into it properly to see what it really has .... but I think it is a XPS 710 or 720

Looks like I have my new machine for this year    Maybe I will be even able to read the temps on this one!

So my upgrade intentions are postponed indefinitely     

[Klinux]

Hi people, thanks for the help.
Now the PC does not turn on anymore at all.
A friend of me (technical guy) told me it probably is the condesnsators (or something) which probably dried out. (The PC is about 5 years old now)
He suggested me to try to replace them, but I have learned to NEVER OPEN A POWER SUPPLY (or a MONITOR) cause of the high voltage condensators can retain.
I will try to find another Power supply that matches the same connectors as my mother board.

The thing I don't understand is why my Philips AT 80286 of 15 years (maybe even more) still works perfectly ;-) .
Probably the quality of the components.

Thanks again guys.

[bicol_willem]

"my Philips AT 80286 of 15 years (maybe even more) still works perfectly ;-) .
Probably the quality of the components."

You got that right!  China was far away by then .... 

[uncleV]

He suggested me to try to replace them, but I have learned to NEVER OPEN A POWER SUPPLY (or a MONITOR) cause of the high voltage condensators can retain.
If I remember correctly the high voltage is applied in CRT monitors only. Even there the voltage decays after some time.

I will try to find another Power supply that matches the same connectors as my mother board.
But are you sure the problem sits in the PSU?

[Klinux]

Power supply replaced some days ago, and PC works perfectly again ;-)

[uncleV]

 
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