Re: odd problem

nos1eep wrote:

It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 05 Mar 2006 03:51:27 GMT,
in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, the queezy keyboard of matty
<matty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spewed the following:

|Dave wrote:
|
|>
|> "Jan Alter" <bearpuf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
|> news:MXqOf.575$eJ1.409@xxxxxxxxxxx
|>> Strange as it sounds it might be the PS. Can you substitute one in?
|>>
|>> --
|>> Jan Alter
|>
|> Doesn't sound strange to me. What makes me wonder though is, it sounds
|> like
|> many things. And the OP mentioned he shut down the PC for "routine
|> stuff" and that he modified the momentary contact power switch.
|
|The routine stuff was restarting after a windows update and I accidently
|hit
|shutdown instead or restart. I put in the new power switch 2 weeks ago
|and
|it worked fine until now. It is not the first time I have to wire or
|rewire something on this system. There is not a part that is less than 2
|years old, and all of them are salvage parts.
|
|> I wouldn't be surprised if it was a bad power supply, but I suspect it
|> is probably related to whatever the OP meant by "routine stuff" that he
|> shut
|> down the PC for. Or, it could be the modified power switch is working
|> a bit
|> too well. :)
|
|The modified switch will still turn the pc on, then I have to turn the
|switch to off as it shuts off on its own. The PSU is not the problem I
|have swapped it out with 2 others of similarer wattage. I have also
|booted
|the system with no drives, and only onboard vid/audio support. As far as
|the OS is concerned, sorry to do this but IT IS NOT A OS PROBLEM. It
|will
|not go to post, it spins up the fans, hard drives, and case lights. All
|the wires are attached, I have checked and rechecked all the jumpers and
|connections. I have checked the CPU and heatsink/fan combo as well as
|the
|RAM and have reseated them as well. I have an Aero fan controller with
|temp settings and all my temps were fine. My CPU was at around 85 the
|drives, were about the same and the case was at about 70.
|>
|> Many people who have problems with their PC will INSIST at the top of
|> their lungs that they didn't do ANYTHING and that the PC just started
|> acting up. If you ask enough questions, eventually it will come out
|> that they recently installed this new game that they found (FREE!!!) on
|> some web site that they
|> found in SPAM e-mail. Or, they thought the inside of their case was a
|> bit
|> dirty, so they VACUUMED it out. So they didn't really do ANYTHING to
|> the computer, they just cleaned it up a bit (with kilovolts of static
|> electricity, ha ha)
|
|I agree with what you are saying, I have done tech support before but the
|only thing I recently did before the last shutdown was to update the
|drivers for my wireless remote. I already checked out the drivers on an
|almost identical computer and they are fine.
|
|> The frustrating thing about these problems is, the individual user
|> ALMOST
|> ALWAYS knows what is wrong with the computer. But, they usually don't
|> know
|> that they know. And when you ask normal questions trying to determine
|> what they did, they get all defensive, making it harder to get to the
|> root cause
|> of the problem. ("I didn't do ANYTHING") -Dave
|I agree whole-hardly, that is why I need your help :). I will stake all
|my knowledge that it is hardware, not software though.


Tell us about the switch that you installed. Is it a momentary switch,
toggle switch, rocker switch, light switch, what?
--

-nos1eep
I just tried a different switch and it still did it, but I am going to play
around with it some more. I think that it might be the switch. Like some
of you have said, it was the last thing that I changed on a hardware level.
.

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