Am I hosed? Power supply or board?

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fschmuck

Am I hosed? Power supply or board?

Post by fschmuck »

BP6 with dual 500s - not overclocked - running XP with all patches. Hibernate is not on. Machine periodically turns itself off w/o warning 0 just Boom! your dead. To get machine to turn back on I must unplug power cord and plug back in. All fans appear to be running so it doesn't appera to be a heat issue.

Case is SuperPro with Abelcom SP301RA power supply.

Is there anything on the board that would do this? Is it the power supply or what? I hate to act like a mechanic and just replace things till it works again, but hey my baby is sick!

Thanks
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Post by RRLedford »

It could be an intermittent shorting issue. Loosen all the Mboard mounting screws a little & if that doesn't help - remove board from the case to run in on the bench for awhiile.
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Post by HAL6000 »

You don't have the bios power stuff set to tunr it off do you?
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