elijo
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Hi.
Power supply: PMC1036 400W.
ACPI uniprocessor Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz, 768 RAM, XP pro.
HD WDC 200G + WDC 40G.
NEC DVD + Sony CD/RW.
(No gaming).
I'm using a customized PC for some years. Once in a while it
will power off to complete loss of all power within half a second after I push the power on button on my keyboard. But not always, to be sure, most of the times it brings the PC back up normally. The problem started out occurring once in a few months a few years ago, but the frequency of this failure has gradually increased to every five times of powering on, now.
The bad thing with it is, that the power supply is really completely dead, no power at the mouse, at the keyboard or anything else anymore. And the only way (I've come about) to get power back on again is 1) wait a while, between 5 minutes and some hours, and 2) wiggle the mains power plug entering the pc plug to generate some 'sparking noise' while the PC main power-switch is off, and 3) switch power on with the PC main power switch, and 4) repeat the three steps once a while until success.
The problem occurs as well when I had put the PC to standby as when I had switched it off. I've never seen it occur, though, at switch off: the mouse remains lighted and the keyboard remains functioning. So the problem comes about only at powering up time.
Sometimes, but not always, after the hard restart obviously involved, I receive a system warning that the power had to be swiched off to protect the MB; that I should put video acceleration to NULL - which I did; that I should download the latest video driver - which I have done time and again, right now it's the most recent Nvidia Geforce FX5200 driver 6.14.10.9371; that I should replace the video card - which I did once. Everything to no avail: the problem re-occurs in every changed situation, as it did before.
I'm grateful for any suggestion.
Elijo
Power supply: PMC1036 400W.
ACPI uniprocessor Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz, 768 RAM, XP pro.
HD WDC 200G + WDC 40G.
NEC DVD + Sony CD/RW.
(No gaming).
I'm using a customized PC for some years. Once in a while it
will power off to complete loss of all power within half a second after I push the power on button on my keyboard. But not always, to be sure, most of the times it brings the PC back up normally. The problem started out occurring once in a few months a few years ago, but the frequency of this failure has gradually increased to every five times of powering on, now.
The bad thing with it is, that the power supply is really completely dead, no power at the mouse, at the keyboard or anything else anymore. And the only way (I've come about) to get power back on again is 1) wait a while, between 5 minutes and some hours, and 2) wiggle the mains power plug entering the pc plug to generate some 'sparking noise' while the PC main power-switch is off, and 3) switch power on with the PC main power switch, and 4) repeat the three steps once a while until success.
The problem occurs as well when I had put the PC to standby as when I had switched it off. I've never seen it occur, though, at switch off: the mouse remains lighted and the keyboard remains functioning. So the problem comes about only at powering up time.
Sometimes, but not always, after the hard restart obviously involved, I receive a system warning that the power had to be swiched off to protect the MB; that I should put video acceleration to NULL - which I did; that I should download the latest video driver - which I have done time and again, right now it's the most recent Nvidia Geforce FX5200 driver 6.14.10.9371; that I should replace the video card - which I did once. Everything to no avail: the problem re-occurs in every changed situation, as it did before.
I'm grateful for any suggestion.
Elijo