Recent content by Cliffsta

Alas folks, I have given up. Chucked the machine in the bin and going for another one. I believe the mobo was toasted in the end. Thanks for all your advice anyway.

Hi folks, I would much appreciate your buying advice :) I am a designer who works in the Adobe Creative suite, including motion graphics, and some 3D studio Max. My heaviest type of work tends to be massive image files, 1gb in size, applying filters and post production. Not sure how photoshop...

Hi - I am diagnosing a random shutdown (Yes, I have made a few posts on this topic!) and I wanted to find out which order I need to check my hardware as the shutdown persists in BIOS mode. From my understanding BIOS runs off board with firmware, with zero drivers / op system loaded. I have so...

Hi, I am getting random shutdowns and I have reached the conclusion I have a hardware problem as the shutdown persists in BIOS mode. The PC often states on restart that there was a shutdown related to a thermal event, but my cores are cool - I have done all the monitoring required. Fans are...

Hi folks, I am trying to work out what part of my machine is creating a random shutdown. I am getting closer but need your advice! I have a DELL T3500, Xeon W3565 Chip, 6 x 2GB DDR, Nvidia Quadro 600. I have eliminated it being a software problem, as I tried leaving the PC in BIOS mode, and...

---- Folks - I may actually have a solution for this! ---- :bounce: I was dubious of the connection to a thermal event, because I know Dells and Intels are reasonably intelligent. Had a look at the event viewer on my machine and noted a critical event happening on each restart under the System...

Thanks Karsten - That is interesting to note. I will get onto dell to see what kind of leverage I can muster. Cliff

Hi folks, I have a dell tower T3500 series with a XEON quad core W3565 chip, running on windows 10. I have been getting thermal shutdowns, at first labelled as such by the system, but more recently more frequent, without the warning prestartup on screen. I have run fan tests (They are all...