Tha Bloo Monkee Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Ok, so my friend's computer has been going a lil weird lately. So he got a new motherboard last year for it (it's a P4, 512mb ram, XP), and his hard drive fried randomly last month. So I lent him an old 5gb (lol) so he could at least use a computer till he got the money to get a new one. Now, a few weeks later he puts in a new hard drive, and 2 days after his computer stops working. I haven't looked at it yet but he said he's taken everything out that's not needed (hard drive, DVD drive, etc) and it still does the same thing (so we assume it's not the new SATA hard drive). I'm curious as to whether it's possibly the power supply that's frying everything. It doesn't make sense, frying one motherboard is understandable, I mean, things break. But then later a hard drive, and now something else. Any ideas as to what we could do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shihchiun Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Power supply is a possibility, yeah... is it a generic model or something branded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Autoexec Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 2 days after his computer stops working Your really going to need to go into more detail on this part ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted February 10, 2008 Moderator Share Posted February 10, 2008 most likely his psu is having big power fluctuations... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 Your really going to need to go into more detail on this part ! He called me up and just said it stopped working. Nothing on the screen, but the fans spin. That's all. Not sure what kind it is, it's not my computer but I'll get more info on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted February 12, 2008 Author Share Posted February 12, 2008 So is it safe to assume he'll probably need a new one as well? I think he's gonna get a diagnosis on it to make sure, and then he'll go from there. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tha Bloo Monkee Posted February 13, 2008 Author Share Posted February 13, 2008 So yeah, he brought it in to some shop and the guy tested the power supply and said it fluctuates like crazy. Problem solved :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted February 13, 2008 Moderator Share Posted February 13, 2008 We could've told you that :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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