Hi, I have a HP Z820 workstation. I love it!
I use it mostly for Blu-ray & GFX projects.
I've never had a single problem with it until a couple weeks ago.
I was playing back a film I had encoded and the computer suddenly went into sleep mode and auto restarted and booted up to my login screen.
When I enetered my password it would start to boot to the home screen, but then would go black and restart again.
I've tried pressing F8 to boot into safe mode, But I haven't had any luck. A couple of days ago I took the side panel and compartment covers off
and got rid of all the dust bunnies. I also pulled the power supply out and cleaned the fans.
When I put all everything back in place and restarted it booted and took my password.
When I tested to see if I could do a video encode..Typically taking about 2 hours,
It did one pass and then went into sleep mode and restarted, just like before.
And when I resrt it's just like before.
I've searched some PC forums and it seems like the power supply may be the culprit.
I'm going to take the power supply out and then re-seat it again and see if it does the same thing.
Any thoughts, suggestions..or like experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
I use it mostly for Blu-ray & GFX projects.
I've never had a single problem with it until a couple weeks ago.
I was playing back a film I had encoded and the computer suddenly went into sleep mode and auto restarted and booted up to my login screen.
When I enetered my password it would start to boot to the home screen, but then would go black and restart again.
I've tried pressing F8 to boot into safe mode, But I haven't had any luck. A couple of days ago I took the side panel and compartment covers off
and got rid of all the dust bunnies. I also pulled the power supply out and cleaned the fans.
When I put all everything back in place and restarted it booted and took my password.
When I tested to see if I could do a video encode..Typically taking about 2 hours,
It did one pass and then went into sleep mode and restarted, just like before.
And when I resrt it's just like before.
I've searched some PC forums and it seems like the power supply may be the culprit.
I'm going to take the power supply out and then re-seat it again and see if it does the same thing.
Any thoughts, suggestions..or like experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan