Carputer shutting down by it self...

09-16-2002, 07:23 AM

Hello all,

My carputer is shutting off by it self, i think it's a hardware problem even knowing that it doesn't shuts off when i plug it into my house only in the car. I think it is shutting off and sometimes restarting when the car vibrates a lot (when i am driving on a bad street). Where is the best place to look at it?? Shoud i look for hd problems or psu problems?? What do you guys think.

Cyro

magnetik · 09-16-2002, 10:26 AM

if it works again if you power off - back on again without touching the carputer then I would say its the HDD.... since if it was video card/sound card/etc then it would most likely 'shake out' rather than shake to the point of freezing the PC....

but if the HDD looses sync due to excess vibration, then winamp wants the next chunk of mp3 to full its buffer.... ekkkk! all over..

MP3DUB · 09-16-2002, 10:58 AM

The head on the hdd getting shaken out of place sounds like a likely reason, but could it also be the atx psu on the inverter having enough of a poor? psuedosine wave and simply overloading and turning itself off?

09-16-2002, 12:05 PM

I don't think it's a inverter problem, because the red fault light on the inverter do not get on, but sometimes the inverter shuts off and i have to turn it off wait some time and then turn it on again. But sometimes i simply turn the computer on right after it turn off and it works. And sometimes it restarts and i can hear no sound, altought the sound card is recognized by win98 lite. So is it possible the cause of this be to much vibration on the hd?? What can i do about it?? What do you guys do?? I am suspecting of the hd because i runned scandisk and i found 1 bad block. Tanks very much for the help, what's a good hd brand that holds vibration problems better.

Cyro

MP3DUB · 09-16-2002, 03:22 PM

I'm not saying that the inverter would be tripping, im saying the power supply spikes or overloads or does something else odd because of the stairstep sine wave the inverter feeds it.

rammic · 09-16-2002, 04:26 PM

Woops... Didn't read that you're running 98lite... I'll shut up now.