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Originally Posted by David F
dodgy power supply or failing motherboard. Other poss is temps is your cpu fan spinning? could be a short on the mobo any screws come loose? or a dry joint on the PCB. Simple way ot testing the switch woudl be to remove the power on cable from the mobo and start it up by shorting the pins. If it shuts down again you know its not the switch
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err that doesn't sound very safe! i wouldn't know how to do that either, and I'd be worried about making it worse.
Fans seem to be spinning fine. As i say it'll will hapily be playing some games all day fine for days on end, then another day i go to turn it on and it shortly turns off. I've never had it not turn on when I've pushed in the power button.
David - I know you're a fan of certain makes of PSU, and regularly warn ppl off cheap ones.
In your experience are EZCool one to avoid? I bought it on a friend's recommendation. he builds various machines and found them to be good value for money, i.e. reliable but not too expensive.
What were the couple you regularly recommend please in case I do go down that route. What watt PSU would you recommend for my machine? . in addition to the spec mentioned above there are 2 hard drives, 1 DVD ROM, 1 DVD+-RW.
Cheers
Al