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System not booting

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Catalyst18

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Problem with parents' system: When power is pressed, the system cycles on-off every 3 seconds, as is evidenced by the optical drive lights repeatedly flashing. With just the processor, ram, and optical drives hooked up, it still does the same thing. I tried switching out the ram. No dice. Even without the video card, it keeps doing the same thing.

This system is an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ system based on a ECS K7S5A, with 256mb of sdr ram, stock heatsink, MSI mx440 video card and a "Deer Computer Co." 300w power supply.

I'm thinking power supply, but it smells fine and has run fine for its entire four-year life. What do you guys think?
 
I would try another PSU before using the one thats in it anymore, typically a computer wont cycle like that unless told to by software, ie windows is configured to restart after system crash or something like that.... maybe shorted reset switch?
 
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