After some troubleshooting I got it back up and running, it's an old PC which we use as a RIP workstation for one of our printers. I've got a backup RIP system I can switch to so it wasn't an immediate panic to get it up and running.
I suspected that it was either temperature or voltage that caused the problem so I went about delving into the depths of Intel's website to find some hardware logging software that was compatible with the PC's motherboard.
After a few failed attempts to find the right version I found LANDesk v6, which made sense as the motherboard for this PC is, after all, a server spec board.
So I install it, configure it, restart the PC then launch it…. it reports everything in the green so I leave it for a day. Next day we try to process a job on it and bang! The monitor image goes off and the fans start going crazy. I then go through the process of getting our other RIP up and running as, clearly, we can't rely on it.
After I get the backup RIP working with our printer, I go back to the troublesome PC, part of my effort to get it back up and running is to remove the cover and check all the connectors inside and this time I leave the cover off. It then starts-up and boots into windows… "Great" I think, "LANDesk's log should hopefully shed some light on the problem…"
Not so, I load the log and what does it show? Read below:
"07 May 2015 11:33:59 The cover was recently removed from the computer"
…and that's it.
