computer problem

pc has been on for ages now and ive had no problems, if it was the power supply it would cut out but not reboot wouldnt it? ive had one pc that had a p s problem and this wouldnt boot at all

not really, boot up is more power intensive to a PSU.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

pc has been on for ages now and ive had no problems, if it was the power supply it would cut out but not reboot wouldnt it? ive had one pc that had a p s problem and this wouldnt boot at all

If the PS was on the way out, the output would be a little uneven. This could cause crashes intermitantly. Try playing a CD, and plugging in lots of peripherals onto teh machine to see if you can increade load and induce a crash...

If it was completely dead, it would just not work, like you said.

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I would definitely think about swapping out the power supply - this is the third one in my home PC - gradually spent more and more on them until I bit the bullet and bought a decent quality one - you get what you pay for...!

sound like the problem, i find as soon as i boot up if i overload it with things to do it will freeze if cut out compleatly unless its been on for 15mins or so then its ok.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

sound like the problem, i find as soon as i boot up if i overload it with things to do it will freeze if cut out compleatly unless its been on for 15mins or so then its ok.

Yup. Power supply. My sense of smell is keen today.

so it will graduly get worse then?

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

so it will graduly get worse then?

Yup maybe... You might find one day the machine is not booting.

(Did I mention that external hard drive )
^ is money well spent no matter what you do with that machine. (get at least a USB2 connection. Firewire if you have it... )

because i recently formated because i knew there was something not quite right i already backed up all the important stuff onto dvd's. an external hdd sounds good tho.

what I do with my "external hd" (which is really a 4 Terabyte Redundant Array of Indep Disks) is I do a sync every night.

I have a little program that runs through my files and sees what ones I have touched, and then syncronises itself to those guys.

This means that I dont have to move the whole lot every week or so, I just do little updates all the time.

And, I can just rewrite over and over files that I am always meddleing with. The program is called rsync. I am not sure if it is available for windows. Its good though, having the flexibility of a hd, aswell as having a couple of DVDs just in case...