Just posting this on a few different forums to see if anyone has any ideas. I imagine some of you are good with computers so if you could help I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
Hey guys, if anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them.. trying to figure out what's going on with it. It's a desktop that I built a couple years ago, has worked pretty much perfectly till now.
Anyhow, this morning it shut down without any warning and would shut down again before it even booted windows if I turned it back on. Even though nothing inside of it was even warm, I decided to leave it alone for a few hours to see if it was a possible overheat. But a couple hours ago I tried again and although I got windows to boot up a couple times it still shut down within a few minutes.
Since then, I have tried messing with the RAM to see if maybe one of the sticks was bad, and it doesn't seem to be the case unless both sticks went bad at once.
Also, I ran and got a thing of compressed air and blew everything out since the power supply and the video card was pretty dusty. I figured it was the supply and that blowing the dust out would fix it, but even after that it continued to shut down.
What could be the possible problems at this point? I don't think overheating or a virus was the culprit, since it was never hot and still did it after hours, and since it does it even before windows starts booting. I was gonna buy a new power supply to see if that would work, but walmart didn't have them and the local pc shops have already closed for the night.