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**lionsiy** · 03-03-2007, 06:03 PM

Power supply

**Kubasarika** · 03-03-2007, 06:10 PM

Borrow a friend's and see.

**igs00r** · 03-03-2007, 06:57 PM

Yeah, the power supply was the first thing I thought of, too.

Newegg has some good deals on those.

**cbUDaNFRu** · 03-03-2007, 07:46 PM

Cleaned out my comp THOROUGHLY of all the dust I could... was pretty dusty, it is actually running noticably quieter now, not that it was noisy before.

The last time it "went under" it *SEEMED* to only happen after it had been up and using a high demand program(civ 4) for a while.

I left it running memtest86 for 3 hours... it got through 4 and a half full cycles, no errors found on memory.

So from what has been said... looks like I may be stuck with a motherboard or power supply issue.

The hard drive does not *SEEM* to be active, as all audio stop swhen the monitor goes off and the activity light goes off, but the hard drive itself is still turning... I put my hand on it last time. Does this mean anything useful in narrowing down the problem?

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03-03-2007, 07:46 PM	#4
cbUDaNFRu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 451 Senior Member	Cleaned out my comp THOROUGHLY of all the dust I could... was pretty dusty, it is actually running noticably quieter now, not that it was noisy before. The last time it "went under" it SEEMED to only happen after it had been up and using a high demand program(civ 4) for a while. I left it running memtest86 for 3 hours... it got through 4 and a half full cycles, no errors found on memory. So from what has been said... looks like I may be stuck with a motherboard or power supply issue. The hard drive does not SEEM to be active, as all audio stop swhen the monitor goes off and the activity light goes off, but the hard drive itself is still turning... I put my hand on it last time. Does this mean anything useful in narrowing down the problem? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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