Posted by Mark - IN. on February 17, 2011 at 17:28:40 from (24.14.63.220):
In Reply to: computer question posted by rrlund on February 17, 2011 at 12:48:34:
You can get power supplies I think from best buy. Countless places. Same with hard drives. Neither costs that much. There of course are things that need to be considered. Processor? is it an old pentium 1 or 2? Fours are still ok, but have been replaced by dual cores and such, and what about your OS? Do you have the CDs to reload it if it is a hard drive? Of course, you have to get drivers for your periphorals. Rebuilding all of that stuff can be time consuming. I've never heard anyone say that in general that replacing a power supply would make it salvagable, but a hard drive makes it a throw away. Hard drives aren't that expensive, and a hard drive would not be a/the determining factor to me. Motherboard, processor, some other things, especially processor would be determining factors, but not power supply or hard drive.
Take your modem out of its PCI slot? I would not. Hurts nothing. These shut downs? I can't think of a reason that taking it our would cause a problem, but lets say that you did. When it shuts down, blue screen? If you did take it out, and shut downs started after you took it out, and I'm talking about shutdown results in "blue screen of death", then I'd put it back in because might be firmware related looking for that card and causing a memory problem. That would be far and few between, but if is shutting down and resulting in a blue screen, I'd undo anything that was done or changed, that could be causing that. Or if just shuts down and goes dark? If is the latter, first guess, power supply. Second guess, motherboard. Something to try that would be easy enough...if memory dims are in slots 1 and 3, try moving them to 2 and 4, IF getting blue screen. First guess would not be hard drive, unless when it boots you see errors that suggest operating system is hosed...because of hard drive. Unless that happens, hard drive would be far from my first guess.
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