I was wondering if any of you guys might be able to help me? I am having trouble with my imaging PC. It just shuts down point blank. I could be reading my email, stacking some images, using Photoshop, whatever. It doesn't just shut down as in when you slect to turn it off, it just goes dead like it has had a power failure or the switch has been flipped on the wall. I have no viruses that I can detect(can't keep it running long enough for a full scan) and I have removed the extra RAM that I put into it. It boots up again straight away, and will run for an indefinite period. The two things that I have observed that seem to affect it the most are heat and load. I had pulled the heat sink of and re-applied thermal paste for the processor some time ago, as I though it might be this, and I have one side of it off to help the air flow from the case fan, etc. I do have a problem in the device manager for an "SM Bus Controller". I believe that this has something to do with the fan or temperature readings etc, but I cannot seem to find a download anywhere to put this driver back into the system. Any suggestions would help, before I decide it's too old and get a later box. It is circa 2002, AMD dual core X64 2.1GHz, 2GHz RAM, 1TB HDD, 1056Mb video card(nVidia), Windows XP Pro SP3.
An i7 would be nice, but, oh well, dream on!!
