- Joined
- Aug 15, 2002
- Location
- Stanwood, WA
I just moved my main comp's position from one house to another. The current place it is, there is little "brown-outs" whenever something turns on (i.e. refridgerator, dryer, even my monitor!)
The first time i started it here, the lights all turned on solidly and the fans turned on..but nothing happened...no memory test noise, no beep....this got we quite worried...had to hold down power button 4 seconds....then i tried it again, and it started fine. Within 2 weeks, this has become more and more frequent, until the point now where i can't get my comp to start at all! Usually, i press the button, and the lights turn on....nothing....other times, it will partly boot up, then do that stupid thing...but the time at which it locks up while booting is completely random. Sometimes it takes like 2 seconds, sometimes windows starts and all and then it does it. I already asked about this, and someone told me that my power supply had probably burned out. No offense to him, but i want more than one opinion. I don't have a spare psu lieing around, so i can't test it that way. Any light anyone can shed...
The first time i started it here, the lights all turned on solidly and the fans turned on..but nothing happened...no memory test noise, no beep....this got we quite worried...had to hold down power button 4 seconds....then i tried it again, and it started fine. Within 2 weeks, this has become more and more frequent, until the point now where i can't get my comp to start at all! Usually, i press the button, and the lights turn on....nothing....other times, it will partly boot up, then do that stupid thing...but the time at which it locks up while booting is completely random. Sometimes it takes like 2 seconds, sometimes windows starts and all and then it does it. I already asked about this, and someone told me that my power supply had probably burned out. No offense to him, but i want more than one opinion. I don't have a spare psu lieing around, so i can't test it that way. Any light anyone can shed...