Re: [PCTECH] No response after running for several hours

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Along the lines of "Is it plugged in?", open the box and look at the CPU 
fan - have you been hearing some noise lately?

More recent motherboards ship some utilities that report temperatures and 
fan speeds, etc. You might see whether you have any of that. I've not 
searched for 3rd party stuff like that. It often depends on the BIOS and 
connections to the motherboard.

Sometimes you can see extra information when you look at BIOS setup. Do 
whatever you need to do to get into the setup, then look around.

HTH
Vern

At 09:22 AM 3/29/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> I have a home PC that seems to just check out after a while.  If the 
> system is left alone long enough, when I come back, it won't respond.  The 
> monitor has gone into sleep mode and moving the mouse or pressing a key 
> doesn't bring it back.  I changed out video cards and no difference.  I'm 
> wondering if maybe the system is overheating but I don't know how to check 
> that out.  The system is an AMD 1700 CPU on an ECS K7S53 system 
> board.  Can anyone help with how to determine if the system is 
> overheating?  Any other suggestions would be welcome also.
>
> Rick