Problem: Power Supply? Cooling System?

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FluxCapacitor

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I'm a PC technician at Circuit City and I can usually figure stuff like this out but this one customer desktop is really stumping me. It will start up fine and load into windows and seems to be working okay. Then after maybe 10-15 minutes, it will just suddenly shut down. I try to turn it on again right after and it starts to boot, goes to the Windows loading screen and then shuts down again, and will only start fully into windows if I wait for 15-20 minutes before hand. I am thinking it could either be a bad power supply, an overheating problem or maybe even bad RAM. If anyone has encountered this before please let me know how you fixed it. Thanks.
 
Check for excess heat. If there isnt any, over heating is a no. Try different ram and another psu if you can.
 
Put in a different power supply. Same deal. :confused:

Different HD...nothing new. Still shuts down after a few seconds unless I wait.
 
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My guess is that its overheating, i would clean out the case along with the fans, and if the BIOS can show the temps, tell us what it says for CPU and System Temps.
 
I once had a decent laptop, and if I ever used it on my bed (thus covering fan hole), it would just turn off. I know its not a laptop, but im guessing the cpu's running very hot.
 
Yeah I have tried to install and run PC Wizard 2006 which will tell me all the temps but it doesn't stay running long enough. I'll check BIOS though.
 
FluxCapacitor said:
Bingo..the processor is running at 83 C!
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that would do it! Deffinetly clean it out and make sure that its connected properly. Also, is this an AMD or Intel, and what model?
 
It has an Intel Celeron D 340, and yeah, I'm gonna clean this sucker out. I'll see if swapping the fan from a parted out HP we have here will work.
 
DL and watch the Intel LGA775 installtion video (if LGA775) or S478 video. Reseat the HSF as per the instructions.
 
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