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PC powering off
Name: Geoff Delderfield Date: November 24, 2003 at 08:41:16 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: XP3000+ / 1 Gig DDR
Comment:
Hi there,
I have a fairly new Athlon XP3000+ Desktop which I bought. I had a problem after a month of it running fine where the 350W power supply died. I returned the PC and they replaced the PSU with a new 400W. The pc ran fine for a couple of months, but now it keeps randomly powering off. It's not going through a shutdown, it just powers off. After this happens, if I immeadiately power on the PC again, it powers on and the HD's spin up but it powers off again within a couple of seconds. If I leave it for a couple of minutes it powers up fine and will run well for hours or sometimes days 24/7 until it powers off again. Any Ideas what could be causing this?
My PC specs:
WinXP Home
Athlon XP3000+ Codegen 400W PSU 1 Gig 333mhz DDR ram Seagate Barracuda 120 Gig HD Maxtor 40 Gig HD Gainward Geforce 4 ti4800se 64mb Soundblaster Audigy Player DVD rom CDRW Enermax case fan MRI PCI ADSL modem 56K modem
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