PC Keeps powering down, why?

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Olabisi Awoyele

I have a Packard Bell computer with a Pentium 2 MMX CPU, 64MB RAM, 4GB HDD
and 16MB AGP VGA card. Lately, whats ben happening is that when I power it
on, It runs for about 10 seconds and then powers itself down completely. You
can hear it whirring to life, the fan runs but only just for a while and
then it goes completely dead. I have no clues as to what the problem may be
and I want to know what the possible cause(s) are for this problem and what
to do to resolve it.

Thanks
O. Awoyele
 
It certainly has nothing to do with XP, if that very old and
limited machine ever booted and ran XP I'd be surprised.
But in ten seconds you are still in the POST phase, Windows
would not have started. Do you hear any of the POST beep
codes. My guess is that you have a dead mobo, video card or
CPU.


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| Hi,
| Are you sure this is a XP problem. Do you see the bios
POST screen if not
| try one of the basic hardware groups. You may need to
initially try
| unplugging cards, memory processor & see if that helps.
|
| Neil
message
| | > I have a Packard Bell computer with a Pentium 2 MMX
CPU, 64MB RAM, 4GB
| HDD
| > and 16MB AGP VGA card. Lately, whats ben happening is
that when I power it
| > on, It runs for about 10 seconds and then powers itself
down completely.
| You
| > can hear it whirring to life, the fan runs but only just
for a while and
| > then it goes completely dead. I have no clues as to what
the problem may
| be
| > and I want to know what the possible cause(s) are for
this problem and
| what
| > to do to resolve it.
| >
| > Thanks
| > O. Awoyele
| >
| >
|
|
 
Hi,
Are you sure this is a XP problem. Do you see the bios POST screen if not
try one of the basic hardware groups. You may need to initially try
unplugging cards, memory processor & see if that helps.

Neil
 
Jim said:
My guess is that you have a dead mobo, video card or
CPU.
Click to expand...

Could be one of those. Or, it could be a semi-dead power supply,
a dead case fan, or a dead CPU heatsink fan, or a clogged air
filter, or a dirty CPU heatsink, or high room temp (it is summer
here), or bad AC power, or loose power/IDE cables, or a bad HD.
{OK, what did I miss?}

You can't afford to hire any pro to debug any PC that old, so
you might want to declare death and buy a whole new PC.
 
I believe that it is your power supply. Mine did the same
thing. Got to post, shut down, got to windows shut down.
Replaced the power supply and all is good
 
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