Computer stopped unexpectedly (was: Re: No Subject)

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 1/4/26 4:09 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
>
> It was just OFF. No shut down. And it happened fast - as in I looked away
> from my computer and then .. just nothing.

Overheating is one thing that does this.

CPU runs too hot.  Computer just shuts off.

I had another one with video in a virtual image.  It faulted and the 
computer just shut off.

> It is a desktop and I did check all the cables - nothing wrong that 
> power, and very clean. I was really happy about that.
> I got some unexpected help from a soccer mate of mine who works at
> Verzion. He is more of a unix guy - lot more command line stuff than 
> anything Ive ever done. My backup partition on the second drive shows
> NTFS and 0 files. He had me install and run testdisk - which did not 
> bring
> promising results at all.
>
> Disk /dev/sda - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63 Partition Start 
> End Size in sectorsD HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 32508 16 20 522240000 
> [Old_Files]
> Now Im running photorec and writing to folder on the main drive. It 
> says estimated time to complete is around 13hours so.. I should know 
> if something can be recovered by then.
>
>
>
> On Sunday 04 January 2026 01:59:17 PM (-06:00), Karl Auer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2026-01-04 at 18:13 +0000, Wade Smart wrote:
> > > Last night while watching a youtube video all of the sudden my
> > > computer just shut down.
> > > Did it shut down, or just die? I.e., did it seem to shut down in an
> > orderly fashion, or did it just - stop?
> > > Assuming the latter, and if it's a desktop, I would check the power
> > cable at both ends or even replace it. And re-seat internal connections
> > and cards etc if you are up to it.
> > > Could also be a hardware fault or overheating. Could be a blocked,
> > dirty or failed fan, too much dust, or failed thermal paste between the
> > heat sink and the CPU.
> > > > It was fine until about 20 min ago when I started to work I my
> > > secondary drive cant be accessed.
> > > I'll be interested in what other suggestions people have, but if it
> > were my drive I would replace it and restore the data from backup.
> > > Regards, K.
> > > -- > 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au, he/him)
> > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
> > > >