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> Just my two cents here. Problems like this are usually the power |
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> supply. Could it be the mobo, yes it could but the power supply is more |
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> likely, usually cheaper to replace and easier to. I had a friends puter |
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> that was acting weird, random reboots and such, it was the power |
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> supply. A bad power supply can cause all sorts of weird problems. |
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Indeed. Well, so can bad capacitors or a hair crack on a motherboard, |
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but those are rare I tink. |
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> If you can, unplug everything including the CD/DVD drive. No hard |
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> drives either. Just play with the BIOS. Basically, don't try to boot |
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> anything, just look at the BIOS itself. If it acts weird, start with |
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> the power supply. If you have to, go to a local place and pick up a |
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> cheap power supply. |
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I got three from a friend that once were mine, and I know that at least |
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one of them is definitely working. But the effect was the same. |
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> Random problems are hard to fix sometimes. You just have to swap things |
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> until you find the bad part. I would put the odds at 80% that it is the |
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> power supply tho. |
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I hoped so, as I do not have board or CPU to swap. |
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> While at it, do you know what brand and the wattage of your power |
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> supply? It could be that someone on here as experience with that |
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> particular brand or even that exact model. |
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I could look it up, but then, it's not new, and was one of the few parts |
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that survived a major hardware failure half a year ago. Maybe it got |
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damaged a little aready then. It seemed to work fine, so I kept using |
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it. These things are not cheap, as I tend to buy quality ones that are |
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silend and efficient. |
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I'll get a new board tomorrow, and hope I will have all back working |
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soon. I'm very used to my desktop PC. I have a notebook that is way |
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faster, but it's new and I don't have all my stuff on it yet. Oh, and it |
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runs Windows 7... I'm not sure yet if I will a Gentoo VM, or if I will |
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install Gentoo natively and run Windows in the VM. The best would be the |
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option to have both, I think I read an article on how this could be |
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accomplished. With Gentoo it's not much of a problem, I did that |
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already, but Windows will need some tweaking. And I do not have much |
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time for this these days. |
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Wonko |
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