 | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by godling |  | | | | | | | | | You can start helping her by opening up the case, vacuuming out dust / cat hair / etceteras, and making sure there's proper airflow in her room. Also, with the case side off, power up and make sure all fans are spinning (CPU, graphics, intake and exhaust for the case, anything you've got).
You can start helping us to help you if you give us a bit more information. Specs for the machine help, environment it's located in, beeps coming from the machine, make/model of the mobo, things like that. From there, we can help you a lot more. Also, check the system logs ... you should have some informative error messages being generated. And if it just shuts off ... beeping noises? Any sort of indicators will do.
From your text above, I wasn't sure which machine you were talking about ... the old one you gave to your sister, or the new one you bought. Looks like the one you gave your sis.
Get back to us when you've got more info and we'll try to help some more.
-godling | |  | |  | |
Thanks for the help so far guys...yeah, its a clean room, but small. It's the computer I gave to my sister (old one). Here are the specs
CPU: Pentium D 2.66ghz
RAM:1GB DDR2
RAM OS: Windows Vista
HDD: 60GB IDE
Motherboard: P5RD2-VM ASUS (onboard Audio and Video)
that's about it. I left it open, checked everything and it is still turning off. No error messages whatsoever, if I left it for about 2-3 hours it will turn on and actually enter Windows, but after a while it will just shut down again, then when I turn it on, they it asks me if I want to boot with the original Windows Vista or on Safe Mode (tried both, still turns off).
Cleaned the case, noticed a lot of dust in the fan and heatsink of the
cpu so I just cleaned it off. The rest are clean too.
I dont understand how this couldve happened, never happened to me when I was using it, and it still lasted 5 months before this started happening. Even got ASUS to replace my motherboard and used my 3 years store warranty to replace my
CPU. Since I though those were broken, but it isnt.