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Computer Guru #6956254
08/06/20 03:30 PM
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Ok one of my machines........a Dell Optiplex GX280....... quit abruptly yesterday......twice. It did the same thing once this morning.
It is attached to a Back-ups and that did not fluctuate.

Computer was refurbished when I bought it about 8 years ago. Still running Windows XP but that has nothing to do with this.
Is my power supply dying ?


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Re: Computer Guru [Re: white17] #6956261
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Could be, other possibilities is motherboard or it's overheating. The latter is easy to figure out. Power supply would be easy to replace.

Re: Computer Guru [Re: white17] #6956264
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Did you clean out any dust ?

Re: Computer Guru [Re: white17] #6956267
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I have an identical machine that has a crashed HDD. I can pull the power supply out of that and swap it.

I assume it will just quit completely eventually if it is the power supply ?????


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Originally Posted by Canvasback2
Did you clean out any dust ?



How could it be dusty ?? laugh


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I would swap the power supply with the one from the other machine, clean a bit while you are in there , just no using the vacuum

take it out side and blow it out with compressed air


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Re: Computer Guru [Re: white17] #6956283
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Change the power supply and swap our you fan for a larger one. Maybe you machine is old and dying. Many don’t last that long. Your OS is obsolete as well, I am guessing.

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White, you ever opened the case on an 8 year old computer? That little fan draws in lots of dust and causes problems eventually.

Re: Computer Guru [Re: white17] #6956285
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Originally Posted by white17
I have an identical machine that has a crashed HDD. I can pull the power supply out of that and swap it.

I assume it will just quit completely eventually if it is the power supply ?????

Yes. But if power supply is faulty, it could fry other components.

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Thanks guys.

Yes I've been inside this machine several times. The hardware is too old to upgrade to a newer OS so I'll keep this one limping along until it quits completely.

I only use it for one thing and have a couple of back up options.


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Did you try unplugging it and plugging it back in again? smile

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laugh


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Hit it with a hammer repeatedly. It'll never give you any more problems.

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I've not had anything but lap tops the last several years. Most of my electric power problems including towers has been in the power buttons. I lost a couple mother boards but seems when then go they go. If I remember right cooling a mother board off to quickly after you quit, like with an extra fan is what pops them.

Just because a system is outdated is no reason to pitch the computer, you can put a Linux Mint 19 in it or on it with another hard drive or flash drive and get some more years out of it. Used to be getting other stuff like wifi or printers to work was a head ache but not so much any more. The cost to do so is very little. The older computers are 32 bit and and won't work with a 64 bit system. A 32 bit will work on 32 and 64 bit, its just not as fast. Mint still comes in both but they are quitting the 32's on this distro.

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Invest in a liquid cooled Computer

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I doubt whites computer usage would necessitate a liquid system.

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Running Mint 19 on an older Dell now and am getting ready to upgrade to the new Mint 20. I have no plans to switch back to windows


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Re: Computer Guru [Re: Drifter] #6956576
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I used To run Linux years ago but it was tough to set up media players is the mint disto incorporating media players.



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70sdiver, yeah mint has a software manager and VLC multimedia player is the most popular and you just hit install. Or you can do it the hard way: https://linuxhint.com/install_vlc_media_play_linuxmint/

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