tower power

[pappabear]

hello been awhile ince i have been in. my fiancee in the uk is having problems again. she is getting power to the tower becos the monitor is on. but the tower itself is not coming on. she tied it agaian a little later and in did power up enuff to make some noise but she turned iy off again cos she is afraid she had fried it. my question is it possible that it is jsu hot. cos sh has it on 24/7 and it is 5 years old.

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pappabear

[Percy]

It sounds like you've got some fairly serious hardware issues with the computer. Just because your monitor is getting power is no indication of power to the computer. If it will intermittantly power on (the computer, not the monitor) then the first thing I would check would be the fans, then the power supply. With the case off, when you power the system on, if one of the fans (CPU fan and/or power supply fan) doesn't spin, that's a Bad Thing(tm). If your fans spin up okay, try using a different power supply to see if that has any effect. Luck to thee.

[Ferrit]

Running the computer 24/7 makes no difference at all. Mine has been running non stop a long time.
Now as to whether it is heat opr not is hard to tell. The fans may well have quit as
Percy was indicating for you to test. If the cpu fan is quit then it definetly could be overheated and burnt

[confus-ed]

Running the computer 24/7 makes no difference at all. Mine has been running non stop a long time.

Pah ! .. 24/7 operation makes it much more likely to be dust clogged or make fans fail from fair ware & tear, most of them are rated for about 10,000 hrs continuous operation, which is about 1 & a bit years..

As said open the case & see that the cpu fan is running & not all gummed up (with dust)..

But if its five years old anything could have failed by now .. leaky caps on the motherboard, hard disk failure, the symptoms are very 'light' to say the least .. time to go visit your 'loved one' & find out !