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camaro
06-11-2001, 11:18 PM
This morning I was using my sister's pc and all of a sudden it like turned off and on really quick untill I unpluged it. Then it would start booting for 5 sec, turn off, boot for 5 sec, turn off, repeat forever. I plugged in my win2k HD inplace of the current win98 one. Same thing. I unpluged all but HD. Nothing. I put the old HD in there after waiting half a day and it booted fine. I only have the HD plugged in. MY CD and CDR and floppy are not plugged in as I though the power supply could be getting tired. It's running so far. What should I do? Do I just run till it happens again. My friend had this problem and eventually I diagnosed that either the mobo or cpu were dead. It just kept randomly turning off by itself. Same sigs on this one. It's a Dell XPS 233. 233 PII, 8.4 Maxtor, 4MB STB velocity, 12MB voodoo 2, SB, 64MB RAM. So should I just run it till it totally dies. I guess just get a new case, mobo, cpu, and probably drop in my MX that I won't need soon. The rest I'll transfer. Is there a way to tell if mobo or cpu are going south? PC is 3 1/2 years old.
you probably got a bad cpu. it could be the mobom, but i would try a different cpu b4 running off to get a new mobo. in most cases its teh cpu
camaro
06-12-2001, 08:54 AM
It did it again right after I posted. I'll change the cpu first.
eagle1
06-12-2001, 10:33 AM
It could easily be the power supply unit! Check the connection to the motherboard or that something is shorting out the board.!
camaro
06-12-2001, 07:10 PM
Power supply is always a possibility. Hard to diagnose for me though. Checked the connections and they are fine. I only took this pc apart a few times and not in the last week. Heatsink gets warm. I'm running with open case now anyway. I'm surprised that there is no active cooling on the cpu. Just one case fan and power supply fan blowing air out. Just connected the CDROM and HD for now. I think it will be a waste to replace the CPU. Cause if that's not it, then I'm out $59. And for that I could have gotten a duron800. hehe Intel prices crack me up. 233PII=800 Duron http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Might as well save the drives and buy an average mobo with average components and a case. I could probably upgrade mine a little and pass her some of my stuff.
GroundZero3
06-13-2001, 12:10 AM
sure its not a heat issue? my bros did that and i placed a common house fan next to it. no problems after that.
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