Recent content by chrisps

Well I got a new PSU from a friend, and have put it in (its actually a 450W PSU), and when I took the old PSU there was burns and lumps of charcoal everywhere! So i guess it was a bit knackered! So far so good with the new PSU - it has been running ok for about half a day, but seeing as the...

It cant be overheating that is causing the sirens, cause the sirens started the second the pc was turned on, and it hadnt been running for at least 12hrs previous to the powering up I didnt realise disks could be damnaged by low power =S I see the point about taking it all apart, i might try...

Theis PC has never been taken apart - it was bought as a unit, and the only things that have ever been taken out of it are the gfx card, the net card and the memory, never the processor How would rebuilding the whole thing out the case help? Thanks!

Yer - I wont be running my main PC off it by any means! If it does fix the problem, I will probably keep it as a spare and get a decent Enermax or Antec PSU Thanks for the help - I will post back when I have the new PSU :)

when the pc is in one of its "not working phases" it doesnt matter if the power switch is plugged into the mother board or not - it still rapidly turns its self on and off. Unfortunately the PSU doesnt have a hard off switch, so i have to use the wall switch to do that. After a while it does...

if your pc is gettings its address automatically, you can tell your router (or dhcp server) to always assign a specific address to your system's specific mac address, and then renew your ip lease (ipconfig /renew in a command prompt) that will grab the new address

Sorry that wasnt very clear - what i meant was that I disconnected the power button, so it wasnt plugged into the system at all, then switched on the wall power socket and it immediately started stuttering, even though there was absolutely nothing touching the power switch motherboard contacts...

Thanks for the comprehensive reply! I actaually tried disconnecting the power button, and it did exactly the same thing - before i had touched any of the contacts, so obviously something dodgy is going on. I am pretty sure my RAM is ok - I did a memcheck on it, and it passed, so unless there...

No, the powering up and down is probably an independent failure of the power supply." But most likely still to be the psu? I have found a cheapish PSU with decent reviews online, so i think i might give that a go rather than risking the 9yr old one i have

right ok thanks - so the system powering up and down without even having the power button pushed could be caused by this timing circuit? - i have a very old (about 9yrs to be precice) psu in the loft - i will see if it has the right connectors, and try replacing it

Thanks for the reply, but is that definitely the problem? How could a psu cause a computer to seemingly turn on and off very quickly without even pressing the power button? Surely doesnt the motherboard control that? Thanks!

Hi, About 4.5 years ago we got a desktop pc (P3 733, Tyan P3 Mobo, 256mb RAM, GeF2 etc) About two years after that we built our own pc, scavenging some of the componants (hdd and gfx card) A week ago, we bought a new hdd and gfx card for the system, with the view to using it as a linux...