Re: Diagnosing a problem

Bitstring <5mkfveFdjne3U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person Adrian C <email@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said
Craig Fox wrote:
These details are a bit scant, but a friend of a friend has a PC which freezes, "shuts itself down" shortly after every boot up.

Stop the hardware blaming, and run a linux livecd of something. If it shuts down running something meaty in that then you have a hardware issue. If not, then it's likely to be software.

Even simpler, try memtest86.

Could be overheating, could be a hardware fault, could be a virus/malware .. more info definitely required.

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