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hippofant
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We have an old computer in our house, a hand-me-down from my days in university. It's an old AMD K7 2600, with 1 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon, and my brother's using it now. Except he's having an issue where it just powers off while it's booting. The hard drive'll beep, and then click, the whole thing just powers off. It does so in such a way that you have to tap the power button twice to get it to power back up, and it'll occasionally happen while loading Windows or shortly after, but after Windows has been loaded for a couple minutes, then the rig's good to go for the rest of the day.
Has anybody experienced this before and can tell me what it is? We don't want to buy a new computer, since it'd totally overshoot his needs and would cost a significant amount of money, but I think we'd be okay with fixing it if the cost is low. I suspect it's the power supply, but I don't really have much hardware experience. Halp?
Has anybody experienced this before and can tell me what it is? We don't want to buy a new computer, since it'd totally overshoot his needs and would cost a significant amount of money, but I think we'd be okay with fixing it if the cost is low. I suspect it's the power supply, but I don't really have much hardware experience. Halp?
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Try to boot into BIOS to see if there's a temperature monitoring page. Let us know how hot it's running.
It's at the beginning of the day, turning it on for the first time. Core and MB temps are 40 and 35 C even after a few tries, so...
it's not overheating.
My recommendation is to spend the $300 to get a very low-end system. You can probably save more money if you don't get a new monitor, etc. It would still be an upgrade from what he's using now, and it saves you the hours of tech support required to keep his current system running.
Otherwise it looks like a PSU issue, you could check it with a volt meter if you want. You can check online if your unsure of how to do it
Eugh, how do I do that? I'm not entirely familiar with what a capacitor even looks like.
check out the pics at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
do yours look like that?
Thanks!