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  1. mistahgtsuga
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    ight so here's what happened.....
    Im on my computer on fb chilling. all of a sudden my computer shuts off. i said w.e. and restarted it. now! it shut down again and when i pressed the power button there so sign of anything happening so i switch off the power supply and switch it back on. then press the power button. computer starts up. about 2 days after the same thing happened but as soon as my home screen image showed up it shut down before loading any icon. so i said f*ck it imma format it. so formatted it reinstalled Vista Business and blah blah blah started up the computer and it does the same thing. so i thought its vista that has a problem but now i downgraded to XP and run the comp and the same thing happens. but when i go close to the computer i hear a buzzing noise coming from the power supply.
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    IS IT A HARDDRIVE PROBLEM or A POWER SUPPLY PROBLEM.

    i need help asap i need my comp for this saturday. ANY1?
     
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    I be hearing weird noises with my comp also. When anything on my comp freezes it makes some kind of loud noise, makes me think its gonna blow up. But I don't think your problem is the hard-drive. If it was a hard drive problem, there would be warnings when your turn on the computer.
     
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  3. Trigga
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    I lol'd @
    Get a new power supply. While your at it, get a new motherboard. Hey, might as well get a new computer. If you don't want to do that, clean all the dust out of your tower and try to get the dust out of your power supply. Use canned air for this or those cloths made to wipe down electronics. After doing that see if it gets better.
     
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  4. mistahgtsuga
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    Lol. i dont money for all that. i already tried dusting it and its the same
     
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    Like Trigga said its most likely your power supply, your motherboard, or even your processer. If its the later two then your better off getting a new pc because the money you pay will be basically buying a new pc.
     
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    calm down and take a deep breath, increasing the front's size won't fix the problem.

    how old is this pc? i'd open it and give it a really good clean. get a new power supply as recommended above. if that's doesn't sort it, you'll have to dig in some more.

    i had to remove and clean both my heatsinks on my alienware laptop, which is like 3 years old since it was randomly shutting down last week due to the heatsinks being clogged. so yeah, even if your pc is old as sh!t it's probably not an motherboard issue unless you've been spilling curry on it.
     
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    i'd recommend you clean it better, preferbaly with 99% rubbing alchohol and compressed air, but your not ready for that. Buy an HP/compaq with windows 7 and install avast antivirus, and go on with your computer escapades problem free.
     
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    it could be the motherboard too, i had this problem when i built my computer, it would stay on for abt 2-3 mins and shut right off, i thought it was the power supply so i bought another and still had same problem, the problem was the motherboard, it kept overheating. so as everyone else said, make sure u clean everything outt good and make sure everything is dust freee.
     
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    u can get a good decent tower for 200 bucks
    i would say **** the headache, cuz if its not the power supply, u'd be upset that u wasted ur time and effort. Keep this pc for parts, and invest in a new one. u can add the Hard drive and possibly the RAM from ur old computer to your new one.
     
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    when I had my old old computer it did this it was the power supply because I would leave my comp running 24/7 and it got over heated an just shut down so get a new power supply or wait for black friday to get ur self a good computer for a good price
     
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    So if it is a Dell or E-machine or even the cheaper HP's take a look at the motherboard. If you look at the capacitors you should see them flat, if they have a bulge or even worse leaking then you know it is a motherboard issue for sure where the board is overheating because they used cheap stuff. Same thing happens with the power supplies for the dells because they all get their capacitors from the same place.

    Easiest way to know where the problem is
    1. blow out the power supply
    2. blow out the heat sink
    3. disconnect the hard drive you should still get to bios screen with no load if you let it run for a while or even if you have a bootable cd let it run and if it shuts down u know it aint your hd.
     
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    thats not any problem just get a new PSU thats it and you'll be fine..
    i recommend somthing like faitality or coolmaster 400 watts and up
    ocz should do the trick the problem is cheap low price PSU claim high wattage but doesnt fullfill their claims
     
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    It could be many different things , Mb problem Ram corruption problem or power suppy problem, i had this same exact problem on my old computer. Go to a store buy a power suppy if that dont work take it back.
     
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    i am having the same problem like that what i did in control panel i adjusted the power options not high not low in the middle and it working good for a week now it could also be a motherboard problem
     
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    its the power supply. the same thing happened to me n i plugged my computer in a 20 volt socket.
     
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