Lippsman...little help man

Quote Originally Posted by MMACapper:

Alright so this has been happening a lot lately..

 

I will be on the internet, or whatever, and my PC will just re-boot itself.  The power doesn't shut off; but it goes to the black screen, loads up, and then I have to put in my password.  Do you know what could be causing this?  Maybe a software malfunction?  My WINDOWS XP is legit, and I have run every spy-ware program in the book...

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Now when you say goes to a blank screen, do you mean that the operating system loads again.  Such as you can see the Windows XP logo come up.  If this is so I would say your power supply is g etting ready to go belly up on you.  Take a look at one of my DOTD post.  There is a good deal on a power supply.

Thanks for the reply

When I say it re-starts, it's as if I just turned my PC on, so it runs the checks (IDE) and whatever else...then I have to put my PW in to log-in

I think you're right about it being the power supply.  I have run scan disk/defrag numerous times with no luck.  What goes in to removing the old and installing the new power supply?  Do you think if I were to go to COMPUSA or a PC store and purchase a power supply, they could just switch them up real quick, or is it more complicated than it seems?

Thanks so much for the help  

Quote Originally Posted by MMACapper:

Lippsman-

 

Turns out part of my mother board got burned,which is the reason for the problem ( according to the guy at PC CLUB )  Had to buy a new one for $60 and have to pay $100 to install it

The motherboard got zapped, but the power supply was O.K.  That is a bit strange.

But glad you got it fixed.

We replace about 5 power supplies a week in the shop.  Between people not having thier computer on a UPS. Plus we are at the beach and we get those 15 minute lighting storms all of the time and the cheap Chinese power supplies they are putting in these sub $500 computers there are quite a few power supplies that go belly up.

We actually have a $15 dollar cheapie power supply and a high end $150 Antec power supply cracked open so we can show people the difference. 

But $100 is a good bit high to replace the motherboard.  Although you won't just pop a few screws out in 15 minutes and replace the motherboard on one of these HP's/Compaq's or the slimline desktops.  It takes you 15 minutes to even crack the damn case open and get all the crap out of the way to even get to the motherboard.