Anything that is plugged into the power supply that is dragging down the voltage (i.e. drawing too much current) and/or just getting things hot could cause those prob's.
Maybe try disconnecting each piece of equipment then booting. This may be difficult with the motherboard and main HD tho :- ) Carl Cerecke wrote: > > Hi, > > I mailed the list last week about needing a power supply because the > one I had caused the computer to spontaneously reboot every so often > (between 1s and a feww hours). > > Well, I'm currently borrowing a supply from a friend, and last night > it turned off all by itself after a minute or so - hadn't finished > booting. And a few days ago it turned off when my daughter accidently > kicked the side of the box. In both cases i had to switch the power > supply off for a while to let the caps discharge before switching it > on again before the power switch at the front of the computer would > work. For still more, possibly related, weird behaviour, the computer > had booted up with a music CD in the drive. After about ten minutes > of being on, the music CD spontaneously started to play, as if I had > just inserted it into the CD drive. > > Any ideas? > -- > Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Department of Computer Science, |Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7859 > University of Canterbury, |Fax: +64 3 364 2569 > Private Bag 4800, |http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~cdc > Christchurch, New Zealand. | -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury Private Bag 4800 Christchurch New Zealand phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 Fax 3642222
