Make sure the PSU fan is running. If its that old, it wouldn't surprise me the fan quit and that can result in the PSU acting as you posted as well. Replace fan with similar if that's the cause. -----Willy ![]()
Hi all
Please help me as I'm not sure what my farther course of action should be. My friend has at his shop old Dell desktop, he uses it mainly for ebay and some other simple stuff, it's old Dell Dimention 2380 (if I get the picture of it right:)). It's based on Celeron chip, and the desktop is really old. Now the problem he asked me to help him with is that he's able to switch on the comp, it's logging to Win XP but it will run maybe for 5min and then it switches off by itself and you have to wait for ab hour, 30 min to be able to switch the comp on again as before that time you can push power button as much as you want and it won't do anything.
Please help me as I just don't know what I should be looking for. Is it somehow fried motherboard? Is it some software defect? Is it PSU not giving enough power to the motherboard? I just don't know where to start.

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