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HELP my Computer's Possesed!

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iammagi

Junior Member
I can't figure out why my Pentium 4 with Windows 2000 mysteriously restarts over and over. Then other times won't turn on for ten minutes. The fan sometimes runs only and the on light doesn't go on for about 5 minutes. Now I can't get it to go on at all.

I tried reseating everything and swapping out the ram. Nothing. I'm stumped. 🙁
 
Welcome to the Forums 🙂 How about give us a full list of all the parts in the computer, starting with the brand and model of the power supply that's towing the boat there. If it's a Happy Meal? computer (pre-built HP/Dell/IBM/Gateway/etc) then give brand & model of the computer as a whole.
 
hell man, my computer will occassionally crash, so I'll turn it off. Like 10 minutes later it'll turn on by itself. This is especially freaky when I'm halfway asleep and I hear "whrrrrrrrrr" as my computer fans spin up.
 
Could be a motherboard problem. I once (back in the P2 days) had a motherboard that was on its way out. When I press the power button, nothing would happen for like 2 minutes then the computer will switch itself on!!

flashbacck: You sure you don't have wake on LAN switched on??
 
Heh, my TV has the same problems. Randomly 'rebooting', randomly powering off, randomly waking me up in the middle of the night with that british guy from Robot Wars yelling at me.
 
I'd agree with jfall that it sounds like a dodgy power supply. Can you describe your system in more detail?

Luck
😀
 
Another thing to consider outside the power supply would be cooling fan. The p4 chipset automatically turns itself off when the sensors indicate that the processor is too hot.
 
Originally posted by: ed21x
Another thing to consider outside the power supply would be cooling fan. The p4 chipset automatically turns itself off when the sensors indicate that the processor is too hot.
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saw that with an hp a few weeks back..nothing like someone's bro-in-law hamfisting his way thru the innards of an hp..he'd managed to unlatch the hsf..unopened I'd fired it off..had went straight for the bios..went for pc health..*poof*..shutdown..crazy me fired it up again..straight for the bios again..saw 69c...*poof*..decided needed to do a looksee..found lotsa gone wrongs..🙁 P4 protection circuit does work..😀
 
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