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ddismuke · Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2 Location: oklahoma

Hi everyone! I have this used emachine model T2792, 2.70 ghz intel celeron processor, 256 MB DDR, 88gb hard drive. It starts up just fine (sometimes) but when it gets to desk top after maybe 1 to 2 minutes the whole thing just shuts off, boom off. Light off and everything. I have no recovery disk since this is used. Please someone help me! Thank you.

nemisis_tfc · Forum Regular Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 26

couple of things

when you say it shuts off, will it boot straight back up immediatly?

try booting the systm and entering your CMOS settings. will the pc stay on in a non windows environment

also try loading windows, obviously be very quick but go to start then run and type eventvwr. open up all of the tabs and look for red circles with white crosses in them, what errors do you have. i would presume you would be most interested in the system tab.

if i were to take a guess as is though i would have to go with faulty power supply
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ddismuke · Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2 Location: oklahoma

It does not reboot immediatly, and i cant get the control panel to comeup, it doesnt finish loading all the programs. When you say power supply problem, what do you mean? I have moved it to a different outlet and still the same problem. I only have a windows 98 disk. None of my newer computers came with the xp disk like they run on.

nemisis_tfc · Forum Regular Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 26

ok one at a time

the power supply is the part inside the PC that you put the plug into. if there is a fault it can often cut out or not start

when you start the PC have a look for an option to go into setup. this will be on the very first screen you come across. this is normally achieved by pressing f1 f2 or the delete key on the keyboard

The setup or bios normally has a blue background with 2 columns of options, dont do anything in here just leave the PC on and then see how long it stays on. If it doesnt reboot then you can rule out the PSU

let me know how you get on with that
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Stevo · GURU Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 308 Location: Tennessee

If it isn't the PSU, you might want to try booting in safe mode and try to get into the event viewer (safe mode doesn't load non-essential programs).

Good luck.

Stevo
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rlhs76 · Contributor Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 5

Sounds like a virus to me. There was also a problem like this going around about a year ago that a windows security fix took care of. We had like 40 machines where I worked do the same thing. Make sure everything is up to date.