[nfbcs] Computer Shutting Off During the Night

[Peter Donahue]

Good afternoon John and everyone,

 

I'm currently writing this note on the effected machine. Once I got it back
up and running this morning 

it's been rrunninglike usual. It's been a year since it was blown out and
cleaned something the 

technician will do when they come next week. We had to replace the hard
drive last year at wich time 

the machine was serviced. This problem began occurring last week.

 

                The computer stays running well into the night. It's left
running when I go to bed anywhere from 

12:30 to 2:00 a.m. When issued Windows 7 runs an update at 3 in the morning.
When my wife gets up 

to leave for work the machine has still been on so she can do what she needs
to do. Whenever this 

happened it has occurred after 6:00 a.m. It most likely did the same thing
this morning but is fine now.

 

                The case feels cool to the touch but Time-Warner's modem is
quite warm. We've been having 

issues with our wireless connection going down whenever we use our laptop or
iDevices. I intend to 

contact Time-Warner after I finish this message so they can get a technician
out here to check this 

modem and switch it out if necessary. The modem issue may have nothing to do
with this computer 

shutting down but there's always that possibility. We've already had
time-Warner out here for the 

connection issue multiple times all to no avail. The only thing they haven't
done is change out the 

modem. Let's see what happens.

 

Peter Donahue

 

   

-----Original Message----- 

From: John G. Heim [mailto:jheim at math.wisc.edu]  

Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 10:04 AM 

To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List 

Cc: Peter Donahue 

Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Computer Shutting off During the Night

 

I nominate over heating as a prime candidate. Points against it are that it
is occuring in the middle of the 

night when the computer is not being used and when the environment is
probably at it's coolest. Is the 

machine doing anything in the middle of the night? Heavy backups? 

Downloading updates?

 

I would open it up and clean it out.  Especially make sure the fans aren't
blocked by dust anddog hair.

 

 

 

On 02/21/2016 09:38 AM, Peter Donahue via nfbcs wrote:

> Good morning everyone,

> 

>   

> 

>                  We're some of those folks that like to keep at least one

> computer running 24/7. Until last week this hasn't been a problem. Several

> mornings last week including this morning we came down stairs to find that

> Mary's computer had shut itself off during the night. It was necessary to

> unplug the power adapter and plug it back in again to restart her PC. Once

> the machine was back on and successfully rebooted everything was fine. It

> runs flawlessly. Someone suggested that the surge protector to which this

> machine is connected was doing its job protecting it from being fried.
These

> shut-downs occurred three times during the past week. Otherwise we've been

> able to run the computer overnight without problems. We may just have to

> shut it down manually before we go to bed until a technician can check it

> out. Someone is supposed to come on Friday to troubleshoot  this issue
along

> with some issues with some of our other devices. I've heard of computers

> shutting down by themselves unexpectedly so this is not new to me. I'd be

> curious to know if there are any settings I can check that may be

> responsible for this behavior. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

> 

>   

> 

> Peter Donahue

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