Simviation Forum - What happened??

Sep 10^th, 2005 at 12:55am

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I clicked on Open for a downloaded file and my computer spontaneously rebooted. What happened? Can I expect this from all downloads?

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Reply #1 - Sep 10^th, 2005 at 12:58am

Nick N Ex Member

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I clicked on Open for a downloaded file and my computer spontaneously rebooted. What happened? Can I expect this from all downloads?

Somethings not right.

You should not have rebooted when opening a download.

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Reply #2 - Sep 10^th, 2005 at 12:59am

Nick N Ex Member

Try the same download and see if it happens again

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Reply #3 - Sep 10^th, 2005 at 1:20am

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It happened again at 2216 PDT. I was reading a series of posts in another section, she powered-down and instantly powered-up again, going through the whole long, agonizing process. I think I smell a power sag, most probably connected to an A/C unit kicking on somewhere in my building. If not that, maybe my power supply is going south. Good thing I have full coverage. This has happened twice in ten minutes; never before tonight in the four months I've had this machine.

I smell ozone...

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Reply #4 - Sep 10^th, 2005 at 3:52am

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Sounds like your PSU is on the way out, I had this recently...

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Reply #5 - Sep 10^th, 2005 at 1:27pm

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I've had it fired-up for several hours today and no problems yet...

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Reply #6 - Sep 11^th, 2005 at 12:38am

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Have you tried a different download?

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Reply #7 - Sep 11^th, 2005 at 2:03am

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Not yet. I'm thinking the problem is not related to this machine, but rather to the power coming in from outside. I can't unzip a download, anyway; I'm completely baffled as to how to do it. I think I have "enough" computer to do it, so I'm the problem...

emachines T6212; AMD Athlon64 3800+ (2.40 GHz; Venice core); Allied AL-B500E 500W power supply; 2048Mb PC3200 DDR400; Westinghouse LCM-22w2 wide-screen LCD monitor; eVGA e-GeForce 7900 GS KO X16 PCIe video card; Logitech Extreme 3D Pro flight controller;&&Cyber Acoustics CA-4100 4-channel digital sound with 5 speakers; 300 Gb external hard drive in an enclosure; Windows XP Home; 3 Mb/s AT&T/Yahoo! DSL service; Microsoft Intellipoint trackball; Supergate EC-2000 multi-media keyboard. Epson CX-7800 Stylus all-in-one printer. Canon PowerShot S3 IS digital camera with 1 Gb SD card.&&Next thing: A CH Products USB 2.0 Flight Yoke (for enhanced realism).

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Reply #8 - Sep 11^th, 2005 at 10:06pm

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To unzip a file, you need winrar or some other archving software. winrar is avalable for free. google it.

Once thats installed, just click on the download in question.

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Reply #9 - Sep 11^th, 2005 at 10:42pm

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Sounds much simpler than all the keyboard gymnastics I'd have to go through to use a Microsoft product. I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

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