Random Shut Off, please help.

I was watching a show on my computer. I was watchin it then out of no where it shut off. I was hella surprised, I waited 5 mins then unplugged everything, then retried and it turned on and it said mouse detected which was weird then it froze. I turned it off externally. Then now I can't load windows XP. Can someone help?

Windows XP Pro
AMD Athlon X2 64 3800+  AM2
nVidia Mobo
1 gig,
256 nVidia 7600 gt EVGA

Help please.

Not enough PSU watts.  GTFO.

It was running fine for about a month. Can it really suddently stop working because of power supply issues?

Stop using Internet Explorer.

0_o I'm using Firefox sir. Is 430 watts enough for a regular computer? It's not even SLI!

clean your case out and get a fatter PSU

I think your PSU is enough.

sounds like a hardware failure of some form.  are you sure you're not doing something stupid like playing with powercords with your feet?

No, but it turned off randomly so it was probably power failure and crashed my HDD but it won't even go through safe mode, or anything at all. It restarts before it even goes to the XP bootscreen.

something's gumming up the power flow, most likely.  anything from powerbar->powercord->PSU->motherboard may have just failed due to old age/poor quality.  although it could be something wonky with another piece of hardware sending bad signals. (if your CPU is reporting a temperature of 255C, for example, your bios may just force a shutdown to protect you from catastrophe)

me, i'd try isolating the cause by trial and error.  if you plug into a power bar, plug directly into the wall.  if you plug directly into the wall, use a different wall socket.  if that doesn't help, replace your power cord with another one (i keep old yet functional computer parts around just for this type of purpose).  if that doesn't help, replace the PSU.  if that doesn't help, remove as much hardware as you can from the system and try to boot up.

When I tried to go to Last Known Config... It said WIndow\system32\config\system is corrupt and to use the XP cd but I don't know how to fix it, It asks for a command after i select repair... Can someone help me? I don't know how to use the recovery console....can someone link me to a tutorial? Or help?

My grandma is having the same problem. Give me your email and I will tell you what was her problem and how it was fixed when it is fixed.

FUCKYOU417@hotmail.com (yeah i know its real...seriously)

in the recovery-console, try to type /help or /? usually that brings up a list of commands, then make it run scandisk with repair.

If that doesn't help, put teh HDD in another computer, backup your data and format, sometimes that is all it takes, the OS being XP and so on...

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