Old pc that shut down quiclky

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What do you all mean old computer

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©opy®ight you have raised a very nice distinction there ( by "nice" I mean "fine" or "succinct") In support of your comment, I have three working boxes that are physically older than you :D

What we should be looking at is MTTF/MTBF metrics?.............."Mean Time To Failure", "Mean Time Between Failures", in other words amount of usage?

In this case I think that it is an MTTF issue. The device has been used for a certain number of cycles, and now failures start to occur?

As for "age" and performance, I have messed around a lot experimenting.............I have three PIIs,

266/333/450 and they are pretty good. I am comparing them to an IBM PIII/533 with 512Mb PC 133.

"It is not the size of the wand, it is the magic with which it is waved" :p :D

OK i have resolve the power supply problem, it was set for 110! :P, but now i put it in 220. But now the main problem is that the pc doesnt show anything. I turn it on, and i try just with, ram, video and processor and it dont gives me anything. And of course i try it normally, with all connected and nothing, no beep, no video. Other thing I think I should say, is that the hd sounds wierd or the floppy, but I think is the hd.

P.D.: The ram (someone asks me to especify), is a DIM128MB/PC100S. Thanks for all.

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OK i have resolve the power supply problem, it was set for 110! :P, but now i put it in 220.

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You should be glad if you didn't let the magic smoke come out !!

No beep would suggest that it's a pre-OS fail, so it might as well be the RAM or the MOBO/PROC.

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i have resolve the power supply problem, it was set for 110! :P, but now i put it in 220

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What? putting it at 110V in a 220V supply, it shouldn't last for more than a minute. Are you sure it's working right?

Remove the RAM from the system and switch it on. You should hear continuous beeps. If you do, atleast you're sure that the motherboard and the power supply are working properly.

If you don't hear anything, it's possible that the SMPS is screwed up, in which case, I would suggest you get one from another PC (possibly your friend's or the computer from which you are typing this) and connect it and see if it works.

LOL ninhil

But our first gateway WAS the definition of POS
P2 450
128megs ram
2 voodo2 3D accel. cards *ghetto old version of SLI*
20gig hdd



replaced the mobo 3 times *under warrentie*
hard drive failed 1 year after warrentie expired
powersupply couldnt power it correctly so it would reboot when you fired up too many apps
and when she finaly died... she smoked harder then anyone i know

only thing worth while was the Gateway vx900 and vx1100 montiors that we kept... still use them to this day :D

Well, it's me again. I remove the RAM, and the PC didn't turn on, then I put the RAM again, and the PC didn't turn on, again. I think is more than obvious that the power supply is dead. But the problem with this power suply is that is directly connectd with the turn on button, they are one. The turn on button (I don't know why) isn't connected to the motherboard directly. I think I should give the PC to a technician. Thanks anyway to all of you.

Well, replacing the PSU TECHNICALLY would have fixed that issue :p... Though chances are you STILL need to replace it... Now when you turn it on, does it stay on? Or does it shut itself down again? You get no beep codes? Not even a single beep? Could be a motherboard or processor problem now but I would suspect the motherboard first...

I doubt it's a Ram problem. If your not recieving post beeps then the first place to look is mobo and PSU. Unfortunately, when you mess with the PSU and the PSU goes down, sometimes it decides to take other components down with it...

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Didn't see his reply :p

OMFG!

You ran a device set at 110v at 220-230v ?..............you have killed it :(

I guess it is a question of what is recoverable? I would say the drives are probably OK, even the memory............but the MoBo will be shot :(

Do you mean it was a mistake changing 110v to 120v!!!??, i tought it was alright, in fact it didnt shut down with 220v, it was "alright", but nothing on screen.