Hello everyone. Thanks for taking the time to read this and for your help.
I have a friend who has this computer and I'm trying to help him with this problem.
His computer has turned itself off after a few seconds of being on over and over typically around 5 times before it will finally boot up all the way. It's not very consistent. When it turns off, it stays off, never reboots itself. Usually, after around 5 tries, it works.
The only time it has ever turned off at any other time is during Windows Vista Welcome screen once and a couple times while playing a game (but not a really intensive 3D game, just a relatively basic one).
This has happened on and off for several weeks. Sometimes he could go several days without any issue, and then maybe after 1 or 2 tries of booting it up, it worked. He keeps it sleep mode a lot so he doesn't have to cold boot it and that works well.
Does any have any idea or input as to what this may be?
I was thinking perhaps a power supply as the most likely culprit, but without being able to reproduce the problem enough, even if I swapped him in new one, it could take awhile before we know if that was it.
Thanks again.
I have a friend who has this computer and I'm trying to help him with this problem.
His computer has turned itself off after a few seconds of being on over and over typically around 5 times before it will finally boot up all the way. It's not very consistent. When it turns off, it stays off, never reboots itself. Usually, after around 5 tries, it works.
The only time it has ever turned off at any other time is during Windows Vista Welcome screen once and a couple times while playing a game (but not a really intensive 3D game, just a relatively basic one).
This has happened on and off for several weeks. Sometimes he could go several days without any issue, and then maybe after 1 or 2 tries of booting it up, it worked. He keeps it sleep mode a lot so he doesn't have to cold boot it and that works well.
Does any have any idea or input as to what this may be?
I was thinking perhaps a power supply as the most likely culprit, but without being able to reproduce the problem enough, even if I swapped him in new one, it could take awhile before we know if that was it.
Thanks again.
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