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Originally posted by rav0
The processor warms up, but it can run healthily at extremely cold temperatures (dry ice cold).
That's what i thought too, but this problem is really doing my head in so i'm not excluding anything.
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The capacitors on the computer store a bit of charge even once the computer is turned off, so if it was just turned off, turning on the computer is different from leaving it a day since it was turned off. I don't know whether it is relevant here <-- hope that makes sense
I remember someone posting about the residual charge somewhere it was relevant, but I can't remember what it was.
From the effects, I can't tell what part of the computer is causing problems. I guessed it might have been the RAM but you daid you swapped that. I'd take it to a computer shop and ask them to test everything, because it is most likely hardware related.
I ran a memorytest wich showed nothing. I have not replaced nor swapped the RAM after talking to some ppl askin if RAM gets read in a certain sequence...like f.e. first what's in slot 1, then slot 2...
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Buy a pack of blank DVDs and start backing up furiously just incase it dies completely.
Luckily most of my stuff is on the secondary harddrive. All i have on C: is Windows and installed programs. Documents, installationfiles etc. are all on the second harddisk.
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Originally posted by evil_panda
This happend to me once when i deleted a regestry file accidently lol, do you remember deleteing anything you didnt know of?
Not that i know of, i only delete registrykeys if i'm absolutely sure they are not needed anymore. It would also not explain why at the beginning the problem occured like once every two weeks then every few days and now daily.
My thoughts still go towards the RAM, but i can't possibly go buy some ram sticks just for the purpose of testing. That's why i'd like to know for sure what is causing all this.