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Diagnosing desktop computer that unexpectedly shuts down - not overheating

Today my office desktop computer (which is also the main network machine) shut down unexpectedly while exporting a very large data file - the other computers in the network were already off. The ...
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Intermittent turn on fault with laptop

I have a PCSpecialist laptop (custom built/cheap chinese barebone parts). The laptop is three years old and has been used for fairly intensive gaming without 'good' cooling. The laptop has an ...
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Can installing a new PSU cause CPU spikes/Firefox freezes?

After having my last PSU die on me, and then running on a borrowed 250W one for a few months, I finally got round to installing a new one. I inputted the wattage of all my current parts into a few ...
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Event ID 37: kernel processor power and problems shutting down

HP Pavilion dv6610eg Changes 2 weeks ago I: cleaned my notebook and renewed thermal material (thermal paste and thermal pads) replaced the HDD with a Samsung 128GB SSD: I can only use it in IDE ...
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Computer will freeze/ lock up after doing relatively stressful things

I'll first start off by saying that the issue GENERALLY doesn't occur unless I'm doing something remotely stressful for my computer. This issue used to occur whenever it felt it was necessary, however ...
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