My HS buddy came all accross Iowa to have me lookat his box. He told me on the phone that it was shutting down unexpectedly, especially from MS Word.
So he comes here asnd tries to boot up and it takes an hour of starting asnd stopping before we can get to his desktop. He qadmits this seems to be worse than before he hauled it cross country. But asfter a while it did seem to smooth out and run for increasingly long periods of time. We managed to back up important data.
IMHO I felt it might be a virus. I wanted to reinstall xp for him but when we booted from the xp disk it gave us an option of repairing the old instalation which we tried. However the thing keeps shutting down at various times during installation. I've gotten down to18 or 19 mins left, but no better.
This sounds like a hardware problem now doesn't it?
I'm not at a place where I can try a new Power supply, but it sounds like this one might be fried to me any thoughts?
Could a virus still be influencing this computer?