Ok, so, my girlfriend's computer has been shutting itself down at random for the last 3 weeks or so. It used to be that it'd stay on for a day or two, then shut down, apparently now it takes about 5 hours. Then again, last week she said it stayed on for 2 and a half days. Since it just appeared to be turning off, I assumed "Power supply failure," especially since I knew it had a crap-tacular PSU in it from when the previous boytoy transferred it over from the original HP case.
So, today I replaced the old supply (it was ridiculous, weighed about as much as a 20oz of pop) with one from my old comp. The replacement is solid, I never had a problem with it, I just upgraded and needed more juice. Plugged it in, ran fine from the time I put it in this morning. I got a call 20 minutes ago, and the thing shut down again. At this point, I'm out of ideas, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
System Specs:
Athalon 2800+ @1.8 Ghz
512 Kb PC3200
80GB Caviar
OLD, tiny AGP Graphics card
CD Drive
Floppy Drive
4 60mm case fans
She's had parts of it for almost 5 years and got a couple things replaced 2 years ago, but it's a word processing/web browsing/emailing machine, so it doesn't work all THAT hard.
The new power supply is a 350 watt (according to the PSU calc that's more than enough) that came out of my Dell. Worked great for about 8 months, then I replaced it because I put in a new graphics board.
I know that sometimes the RAM can be a problem, but she's had this stick for 3 years and it's worked fine. Like I said, any and all help is greatly appreciated......I'll even give you credit for it instead of keeping it all for myself
So, today I replaced the old supply (it was ridiculous, weighed about as much as a 20oz of pop) with one from my old comp. The replacement is solid, I never had a problem with it, I just upgraded and needed more juice. Plugged it in, ran fine from the time I put it in this morning. I got a call 20 minutes ago, and the thing shut down again. At this point, I'm out of ideas, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
System Specs:
Athalon 2800+ @1.8 Ghz
512 Kb PC3200
80GB Caviar
OLD, tiny AGP Graphics card
CD Drive
Floppy Drive
4 60mm case fans
She's had parts of it for almost 5 years and got a couple things replaced 2 years ago, but it's a word processing/web browsing/emailing machine, so it doesn't work all THAT hard.
The new power supply is a 350 watt (according to the PSU calc that's more than enough) that came out of my Dell. Worked great for about 8 months, then I replaced it because I put in a new graphics board.
I know that sometimes the RAM can be a problem, but she's had this stick for 3 years and it's worked fine. Like I said, any and all help is greatly appreciated......I'll even give you credit for it instead of keeping it all for myself