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Old April 28th 05, 02:16 AM
Ben Myers
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If this is a mid-tower chassis, the power supply is a standard garden-variety
vanilla ATX... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:49:47 -0700, "DaveW" wrote:

It certainly sounds like a power supply problem to me too. The easiest
thing to do is replace the power supply unit with a known working one of
adequate power output, and see if that fixes it.

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"chairchair" wrote in message
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How can I tell the difference between a power supply problem and a hard
drive problem? Sometimes the computer freezes up and it has to be
rebooted. Sometimes when the computer is started, it freezes when it's
booted up. After trying to boot it up for 4 or 5 times, it freezes
every time. Then if the computer is unplugged, left alone for an hour,
it will boot up and work ok for 4 or 5 hours. I think the power supply
is 300W. It's an old computer. It's a Micron. It's a Pentium 3, 733
MHz, 768 RAM, 2 hard drives - one 30G, other 20G. There's a CDrom, zip
drive, floppy drive. I'm running Win 98 SE.

When it has problems booting up, it seems like it lacks the energy to
start. I'm guessing it's a power supply problem.