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    From David@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 14 14:40:07 2025
    I've had intermittent issues with unexpected powering down for some time.

    I am looking again for some way to track down anything abnormal just
    before the PC powers off.

    There are various options for PC monitoring software with data logging,
    but I am only investigating these very slowly.

    My basic need is for something that monitors, at a minimum, CPU
    temperatures and logs the results on a regular basis to a log file.

    I would need to be able to configure (and reconfigure) the log file name
    and the rate of logging at a minimum.

    Any recommendations?
    Anyone already doing this?

    Cheers



    Dave R


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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to David on Tue Jan 14 15:52:37 2025
    David wrote:

    I've had intermittent issues with unexpected powering down for some time.

    I am looking again for some way to track down anything abnormal just
    before the PC powers off.
    Have you used the built-in Reliability Monitor?

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to David on Tue Jan 14 17:17:36 2025
    On 14 Jan 2025 at 14:40:07 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:

    I've had intermittent issues with unexpected powering down for some time.

    It's the PSU. It's always the PSU.

    Software or CPU or RAM causes slowdowns or hangs or reboots. Only PSU
    issues will give you actual powerdown.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From Richard Kettlewell@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Wed Jan 15 11:42:43 2025
    Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> writes:
    On 14 Jan 2025 at 14:40:07 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:

    I've had intermittent issues with unexpected powering down for some time.

    How old is the PC?

    It's the PSU. It's always the PSU.

    Software or CPU or RAM causes slowdowns or hangs or reboots. Only PSU
    issues will give you actual powerdown.

    Overheating will do it too. I’ve had several PCs develop power-down
    habits after a few years that were fixed by refreshing the paste between
    CPU and heatsink.

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  • From David@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Wed Jan 15 14:18:36 2025
    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:52:37 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

    David wrote:

    I've had intermittent issues with unexpected powering down for some
    time.

    I am looking again for some way to track down anything abnormal just
    before the PC powers off.
    Have you used the built-in Reliability Monitor?

    Didn't even know there was one.

    Cheers



    Dave R

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to invalid@invalid.invalid on Wed Jan 15 19:28:58 2025
    On 15 Jan 2025 at 11:42:43 GMT, "Richard Kettlewell"
    <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> writes:
    On 14 Jan 2025 at 14:40:07 GMT, "David" <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:

    I've had intermittent issues with unexpected powering down for some time.

    How old is the PC?

    It's the PSU. It's always the PSU.

    Software or CPU or RAM causes slowdowns or hangs or reboots. Only PSU
    issues will give you actual powerdown.

    Overheating will do it too. I’ve had several PCs develop power-down
    habits after a few years that were fixed by refreshing the paste between
    CPU and heatsink.

    That shouldn't be true for any CPU since about 2012, they all thermal
    throttle hard enough that they'll go treacle or wedge entirely, but not
    power down.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From David@21:1/5 to David on Fri Jan 17 20:07:38 2025
    On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:18:36 +0000, David wrote:

    On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:52:37 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

    David wrote:

    I've had intermittent issues with unexpected powering down for some
    time.

    I am looking again for some way to track down anything abnormal just
    before the PC powers off.
    Have you used the built-in Reliability Monitor?

    Didn't even know there was one.

    I was just investigating this when the PSU switched off.
    No warnings reported apart from on restart that the PC failed to close
    down cleanly.

    Probably the PSU.

    Cheers



    Dave R


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