My desktop spontaneously powered down?

[Jerry Feldman]

On Tue, 20 May 2003 14:31:51 -0400 (EDT)
Duane Morin <dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com> wrote:

> I just went up to my office to discover that my PC
> was powered off.  Odd, since I left it on.  Power was
> flowing to the power strip, and the other devices on
> it including printer and monitor.  Oddly the PC appeared
> to still be getting power, as a green light on the front
> of the case was glowing.
> 
> I wiggled a few cables and noticed tat the green light
> was out.  Assuming I had just noticed it at the wrong angle,
> I tried the power again, and the PC came on.  Stayed on
> long enough to fire up XP and let me log in, but a few
> minutes after that, shut itself off again.  Now I can't
> get it to turn on.
> 
> This is completely new behavior for me.  Ideas?  I'm
> wondering, it's a hot day, could it just be overheating
> and shutting itself down?  And the first time I caught
> it right when it had cooled off enough?
> 
> Could my power supply be dying?
> 
> Just to rule it out is there anything that could run
> on a PC (i.e. virus) that could shut down my machine?
It sounds like a power supply. I had a problem on my Linux desktop a
year or so ago where my hard drives would power down. Eventually I
tracked it down to power supply. The disks are fine. 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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