Hi

I just registered so I just wanted to say hi to all.
Found the site from a google search . Unfortunately I am not much of a techie, so I won't be able to help anyobdy out, but I will try to behave and contribute how I can on this forum .
I have a big problem with my PC and it has been going on for a long time, I have already changed some parts of it but the problem is still there....Anyway, before making any questions, I will try a search to see if the problem I have has already been covered on this forum.

time for a nap now.

[StinkyMojo]

hello

[Jason425]

yo.. since you made a thread, what's the prob?

heya Newb

hmmmm couldja tell us a little about yourself?

or a little about your prob..... we don't bite...... well not hard anyway

Hi again,
Ok... I just turned 31 geeez. I am originally italian and it is almost 5 years I am living in England.....that explains my poor english . I am into web and graphic design.
Enough about me I already see people falling asleep .

My PC setup:

• OS: Win XP SP1
• PSU: Q-Tec 400w
• MB: MSI - K7N2 Delta (nforce chipset)
• CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+
• RAM: 1 Gb Kingston ( 2 x 512Mb)
• Video Card: Leadtek - Geforce 4 128 Mb
• HD1: Seagate 30 gb
• HD2: Maxtor 60 gb

The problem:

This problem has been haunting me since a year already. Basically what happens is that it randomly powers down. No warning, it just shuts off.
I can't restart it unless I take out the power cable for a few seconds.

Since I had this problem I found a little solution to it and it is placing a huge desk fan in front of the open PC case. This solution works 95% of the times, because sometimes the PC still powers off.And to be honest recently I have noticed the problem is getting worse.
Obviously the desk fan cannot be a permanent solution. So since these power off problems, I have bought a new motherboard and CPU. Worked fine without desk fan for about 2 weeks. After that it started powering off again....so here I am again with my huge desk fan , asking for help.

I was so sure that by changing the motherboard and the cpu that I would free myself from this problem. But since that didn' t help, now I don't want to go randomly buying other new PC components before I have a good idea of what the problem could be.

I hope somebody can help.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.

[Uranium-235]

yeah and cherry dosen't bite unless you BEG her to :P

aaaaaaanyways, sounds like a heat problem, did you put any Artic Silver or another good thermal paste on it?

@Uranium-235: thanks for your reply.

I didn't install any of the HW. The guy at the shop where I bought the whole PC did all, also for the new cpu and mb. So...no...I wouldn't know what paste or what he put in it.

[Jason425]

perhaps the power supply is bad?

[Prometheus]

hey effectica im in ireland just moved over

add me to msn so we can chat or AIM if you have it

just so you know im american just moved over...leaving jason425 behind (thank god) and stinky (waaah)

and cherry...sort of...5 hr drive from my old residence.

Enjoy TWL! Everyone here is quite friendly so feel free to PM or IM us.

[Jason425]

lol... if you only knew, then you'd have that the other way around.. :P