Computer stopped unexpectedly (was: Re: No Subject)

[Wade Smart]

I run Psensor and these numbers hardly ever change.
Package id 0  runs between 37 and 40C
fan2 is  1198 to 1202
Core 0 - 7 range 26 to 36

Im not saying it cant be that - it just seems unlikely to be heat related.

Just now the cpu spiked to 37C and you hear the fan blip up and right
back down. I know that has something to do with the number of tabs
Im running in Vivaldi. 

After this recovery is done - and that 13 hrs dropped to 42 min already
so -- pretty soon - then Ill look into the hard drive to make sure it wasnt
anything specific with that. Its older but not as old as some of my old
trusty and true one still running.



On Sunday 04 January 2026 03:38:06 PM (-06:00), Robert Moskowitz wrote:

 > 
 > 
 > 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
 > > > > >
 > 
 > 

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