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[Tx Redneck]

'Puter gurus, I need some help. My neighbors power supply took a shit, so he got another one. Now the damn thing won't fully boot.

It does the usual testing at power up and gets to the XP load screen then re-boots itself. :confused:

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Bryan

[BP]

Maybe the dust that killed the power supply is making the processor over heat?

[BottleRocket]

if a PSU goes out, it can surge and take anything in the computer with it.

[DLinkOZ]

Lots of times it'll scatter some bits on the hd. Best thing to do is get a utility disc and run a good disk scan, looking for and fixing any bad spots.

[Stang2be]

I've also had a ps take out a board/cpu with it

[DLinkOZ]

I had a firewall PS die, and smoke the memory, mb and cpu. But in this instance, it partially boots and fails during the Windows load - so my guess is some data corruption due to jitter at the time that the system surged.

[Tx Redneck]

Well, we ended up reformatting and starting fresh. It seems to work better now than it did in the first place.

Thanks for the help yall. :D

[Roliath]

your lucky it just took a reformat..
I've had a PSU take out my brand new CPU, mobo, and 2x1GB of ram..
Damn...

[ceyko]

get a big enough ps to replace the old one?

[Tx Redneck]

[QUOTE=ceyko]get a big enough ps to replace the old one?[/QUOTE]

Yes sir, the old one wasn't but a 350w. The new one is a 450w. I tell you what, Tran Computer is the shit when you need parts. Their pricing is hard to beat locally.

BTW, the 'puter is an oldie, a P4 1.6 runnin' XP w/ a whole 256 stick. :eek:

[ceyko]

[QUOTE=Tx Redneck]Well, we ended up reformatting and starting fresh. It seems to work better now than it did in the first place.

Thanks for the help yall. :D[/QUOTE]

Ah damn, I missed this post anyway. Yeah, pretty lucky and typically a reload of an OS that has been on awhile does yield good results. Sorry for my worthless post, after the fact. ;)