Software to restart a pc.

[Hectic]

Hi. I have a client's pc that does not always want to start up. It is an Intel motherboard and it would hang at those AB or whatever characters at the bottom right. If it does boot past that, it fails to detect the mouse.

It is an usb keyboard and PS2 mouse setup. Have swapped out and around this hardware with no positive effect.

A reset or restart would normally rectify it. Apparently this does happen frequent enough to have the client very upset. I have stress test tested the board, cpu, psu and graphics and all seemed okay, but it does seem that the problems do occur more frequently after these stress test. At one stage the PSU gave me severe fluctuations on the 12V and 5V rail. (3V - 12.5V on 12 V rail and 1.3 to 5.3V on 5V rail).

I have now installed a Corsair PSU and the readings are absolute stable.

All temperatures are ok and fans kick in whenever needed.

I have not experienced any start up problems yet after the psu replacement, but I don't have the time now to sit with just this pc.

So, I'm looking for software that will restart the system constantly or as part of a timer.

Any suggestions?

 

[mister]

use windows scheduler to run shutdown.exe -r -f -t 1

 

[Voicy]

Add the following command to your startup so it launches each time your pc starts:

Shutdown.exe -r -f -t XX where XX = the amount of time in seconds from receiving the command to execution of the restart. [-r = restart, -f = force programs closing]

EDIT: Or what Mister said.

 

[Hectic]

Mister

use windows scheduler to run shutdown.exe -r -f -t 1

Add the following command to your startup so it launches each time your pc starts:

Shutdown.exe -r -f -t XX where XX = the amount of time in seconds from receiving the command to execution of the restart. [-r = restart, -f = force programs closing]


EDIT: Or what Mister said.

Thx for the speedy reply

 

[Hectic]

How can I stress the system after boot. I don't see any command line instructions for systester?.
Q9950 cpu, 4GB ram, 9800GT GPU no special cooling. Terabyte drive and writer.
I have tried a couple of videos on boot, etc, but does not put cpu, ram, gpu and psu under real stress.

 

[mister]

Intel Linpack is command line i think

intelburntest has a GUI

 

[mister]

I just checked inside the intelburntest folder and there is the command line tool....

LinData / x32 / linpack32.exe

 

[Hectic]

I just checked inside the intelburntest folder and there is the command line tool....

LinData / x32 / linpack32.exe

Once again, thx