My PC turns itself off after 20mins?

Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:23 am

so I should just get something like
http://www.thelinuxshop.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=221&gclid=CPjzpr-3maoCFUwc4QodlE9Jyw

Any chance that you're a student currently enrolled in college? Microsoft offers some software, like Win7, at special reduced prices for students. Sorry, I've no idea of the details of the offer, but you can begin at the link, below. Maybe some other members with experience in this will add some better information.

http://www.microsoft.com/student/en/us/software/windows/default.aspx

Consider going for a less expensive Upgrade path to Win7. Of course, you'd need an OS like Vista or XP to upgrade from. Vista > Win7 is an easy upgrade. XP > Win7 doesn't always work well, use their Upgrade Advisor application to check for potential problems.
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:33 am

You will pretty much need Windows to run most applications and games. For applications there often are linux equivalents but for games you need Windows or have to use debatably legal solutions such as WINE, which might not even support your game.

There's nothing debatably legal about Wine. It's a compatibility layer created from clean-room reverse engineering.

Of course your remark about it not running everything is correct. It is, after all, just a compatibility layer ;)
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 1:15 am

Hey I just got a reply from the makers

Dear Jack,

we are sorry that the computer ist causing trouble. It sounds like that
one memory stick is damaged.
After the computer turned off does it reboot immediately or does it stay
off?
Please try to use one memory stick at the time and mail us your results.

Best Regards,
shinobee Customer Service

The thing is there is no memory sticks :s do they mean RAM?
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:12 am

Hey I just got a reply from the makers

Dear Jack,

we are sorry that the computer ist causing trouble. It sounds like that
one memory stick is damaged.
After the computer turned off does it reboot immediately or does it stay
off?
Please try to use one memory stick at the time and mail us your results.

Best Regards,
shinobee Customer Service

The thing is there is no memory sticks :s do they mean RAM?


Memory = RAM (Random Access Memory)
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:49 am

Memory = RAM (Random Access Memory)

K ill take out one of the ram stick
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:51 am

K ill take out one of the ram stick


How many RAM sticks do you have? If you just pull one out randomly, that's not a good test. Say you have 4x1GB sticks. You need to remove 3 and boot the computer with just the remaining one. If it boots and remains on without restarting, then that stick is OK. (Assuming that the RAM is the problem--which I kind of doubt at this point, but hey. Eliminate all possibilities and all that.) If it goes into insta-reboot, then that's the bad stick. Shut the computer down, unplug it, and swap the currently installed RAM stick for one of the 3 you pulled earlier. Lather, rinse, repeat until you find the bad piece of RAM.

To be honest, though, before you go around yanking bits of your PC's hardware out or randomly editing any BIOS settings, I would eliminate the possibility that your lack of a "real" OS is what's causing this. Cheapest way to do that would be to install a Linux variant, as others in the thread have suggested. That Amazon store page says there's no OS included, and since you didn't even get a restore disc (IIRC) with your build I'd assume that what it says is true. The version of Windows 7 you've got on there now is an expired trial. It is not going to work. Period.
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 10:49 am

I did what they said and it didn't work I had two sticks I took out one and it still happen then I put that on back in a took out the other and still happen
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Post » Mon Dec 05, 2011 7:28 am

To be honest, though, before you go around yanking bits of your PC's hardware out or randomly editing any BIOS settings, I would eliminate the possibility that your lack of a "real" OS is what's causing this. Cheapest way to do that would be to install a Linux variant, as others in the thread have suggested. That Amazon store page says there's no OS included, and since you didn't even get a restore disc (IIRC) with your build I'd assume that what it says is true. The version of Windows 7 you've got on there now is an expired trial. It is not going to work. Period.

Indeed. See if it happens with a clean OS install. If it still happens in Linux, go ahead and see about returning it as defective. If it doesn't then go buy a Windows install disc and put it on there.
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Post » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:06 pm

Hey I just got a reply from the makers

Dear Jack,

we are sorry that the computer ist causing trouble. It sounds like that
one memory stick is damaged.
After the computer turned off does it reboot immediately or does it stay
off?
Please try to use one memory stick at the time and mail us your results.

Best Regards,
shinobee Customer Service

The thing is there is no memory sticks :s do they mean RAM?

I respectfully disagree with their suspicion. Bad RAM would effect the PC's stability in both BIOS & desktop. You've had issues of:

Getting past the Welcome Screen
Reaching the desktop
Running a stable desktop.

After some poking around, it seems that Shinobee PCs simply don't include a valid licensable end user OS. Users must install an OS after delivery. They may not have an OEM volume license distributor agreement with Microsoft. Have they addressed this concern of yours?

I know oongatz about Linux, so heed those with good advice there, as posted above. Seems like a good cheap way to troubleshoot your issue at this point.

*Do you have an older OS (XP/Vista) to try out?
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