I have a Pentium 4 1.7ghz with a Supermicro P4STA and 700mb of RAM with 2 133gb ATA133, It seems to just shutdown on its own all of a sudden, no message just goes to a black screen and the hard drive light remains lit and you can not power off or use the reset button to get it back on. It has to be unplugged. What do you think the issue with this is? The memory? CPU? Hard Drives? Power Supply?
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jznightmare
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that also happened to me and the problem was the power supply.
Hola, sounds like your PSU doesn't have the oomph to drive all the stuff you got hooked up... what is the wattage and have you tried another PSU...
Could also be a thermal issue... ie. CPU getting to hot...
was the CPU installed by you, or from a store? if by your own skills, did you use HeatSink (HS) compound? what are your thermal settings in BIOS...
Ben
PS - PC's can be fun, until they decide to do things on their own...
Could also be a thermal issue... ie. CPU getting to hot...
was the CPU installed by you, or from a store? if by your own skills, did you use HeatSink (HS) compound? what are your thermal settings in BIOS...
Ben
PS - PC's can be fun, until they decide to do things on their own...
moonguppie
Technical User
I'm banking on the power supply. If not maybe it's heat generated, but I don't think so. *hands over his two cents*
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