Won't power up in the morning.

29 Jan 2005 3:06 PM

Alan Westrop

The last three days, I have had a problem when switching on my PC
first thing in the morning. Once it has successfully booted, it has
worked the rest of the day without problem, including when it has been
shut down for an hour or two and then rebooted.

The symptoms are that for the first few attempts to switch it on, it
switches itself off again in less than one second. Then for the next
two or three attempts it stays on for about three seconds before
switching off. Finally it boots up successfully. The power has to be
switched off at the mains between each attempt or nothing happens at
all when the button on the front is pressed.

The machine is about 3 years old, 1.2G Athlon.

I guess its the power supply, but thought I would see if anyone can
confirm this or make a better suggestion.

Thanks for any help.

Alan

24 Feb 2005 12:43 PM

afwestrop

It wasn't the switch - eliminated this by swapping with the
reset button.

Found that leaving the power on at the mains avoided the problem,
but after a week it started happening again.

Bought and fitted a new power supply, and the PC has booted first time
the last three days, so hopefully that was the culprit.

Thanks again to those who made suggestions.

Alan