Name: Anonymous 2006-05-17 10:19
I have a windows xp pc.
Usually I leave my computer on, downloading things off BT and the like. For months there were no problems. Tonight, twice in a matter of hours, I restarted my computer and when it boots up again it dies abruptly. Mind you, the computer is working perfectly fine before the restart.
The first time I just hit the power again, thinking I hit "Shut Down" instead of restart. It dies again before any text can load on screen.
I open it up, take a look at the parts (I have intermediate experience at best) everything seems to be in order. I feel the power box, the thing that the power goes into, and its hot. I'm guessing its hotter than usual and I think this is my problem and its happening because I live in the desert (Las Vegas) and I think the heat is getting to it. Although this didn't happen last year, this is my only guess.
I leave it off for over an hour, and have a large fan blow into it to cool it off the entire time.
When I turn it back on again its fine, completly normal. At one point I'm using a program and it dies on me twice, I'm guessing I was multi-tasking too much and using too much memory. I restart the computer and have the same problem again. Its off right now and I haven't touched it since (this is a different pc I'm using to write this message). I don't know what the problem is that's preventing it from booting up. I worry its a bad power supply thing, that bugs me b/c I just installed a new one last year, also replaced the processor.
What can I do to fix it? Thank you
Usually I leave my computer on, downloading things off BT and the like. For months there were no problems. Tonight, twice in a matter of hours, I restarted my computer and when it boots up again it dies abruptly. Mind you, the computer is working perfectly fine before the restart.
The first time I just hit the power again, thinking I hit "Shut Down" instead of restart. It dies again before any text can load on screen.
I open it up, take a look at the parts (I have intermediate experience at best) everything seems to be in order. I feel the power box, the thing that the power goes into, and its hot. I'm guessing its hotter than usual and I think this is my problem and its happening because I live in the desert (Las Vegas) and I think the heat is getting to it. Although this didn't happen last year, this is my only guess.
I leave it off for over an hour, and have a large fan blow into it to cool it off the entire time.
When I turn it back on again its fine, completly normal. At one point I'm using a program and it dies on me twice, I'm guessing I was multi-tasking too much and using too much memory. I restart the computer and have the same problem again. Its off right now and I haven't touched it since (this is a different pc I'm using to write this message). I don't know what the problem is that's preventing it from booting up. I worry its a bad power supply thing, that bugs me b/c I just installed a new one last year, also replaced the processor.
What can I do to fix it? Thank you