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system boots up fine, but won't stay on... everything starts up fine, then it just shuts down after a few minutes

#31 FrankOtheMountaiN

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 12:18 AM

Ah, maybe the power supply fan went bad. I've changed a few of them on Dells because they were really noisy and seemed close to failure.

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#32 GuruLounge

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Posted 25 September 2011 - 03:42 AM

Hopefully that's the problem. Been watching this post. Learned a bit myself.

Jeff

#33 Kauaiguy58

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 02:35 PM

Thanks again everyone who contributed...looks like that did it...been running all day for two days straight, and my PC has never been faster!

Norm

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Posted 26 September 2011 - 08:48 PM

Glad you were able to get this computer up and running again. :thumbup2:

Sorry we were not able to pin-point the exact cause of the problem before you brought it into a repair shop, but the difference is a repair shop has hands on contact with the computer and can switch parts in and out to come up with a quick solution.

When computers shut down with out being told to do so, the first thought is a component is over heating and causing the shut down.

Power supplies are often on the list of hardware causing such issues, however in this thread that piece of hardware has not yet been mention.

Regardless, glad your problem has been resolved and thank you for posting back at us and letting us know what solved the problem.

Happy computing!

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