Solve : Power Supply Failing??

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Answer» Just wondering if anyone might know if I might be seeing a sign of a failing power supply. More often than not, when I turn on my computer, the first page of the BIOS comes up (showing the processor speed and memory), but it does not progress beyond that. However, when I simply turn off the computer and start it again, the first page comes back on the screen and it proceeds on normally (you can hear the floppy drive being found, etc.) and WINDOWS XP starts just fine and the computer runs just fine. Sometimes, it will start up normally, so I'm wondering if it's just not getting enough juice to crank it up. I have an old 250 watt power supply, so thought about putting a 350 in it. I have already RESET optimized BIOS settings and that doesn't make any difference......Thanksyep...new PSU would be good. Go for 450W minimum and don't buy a cheap one. PATIO. 8-)What computer/motherboard make and model and what make of power supply does it have?Quote yep...new PSU would be good. Go for 450W minimum and don't buy a cheap one. patio. 8-) Thank you very much, patio!Quote What computer/motherboard make and model and what make of power supply does it have? Well, actually it's an old Tekram Pentium II motherboard(P6B40-A4x, Rev 1.1) that over the years I have kept upgrading. The power supply in it now is the 2nd one I've had, a 250W supply, and it was put in used already. I'm running a PowerLeap upgrade on it with a 1.4 GHz Celeron cpu, with 1.0 Gb of RAM believe it or not, and it runs Windows XP just great! Well, after hearing that, the power supply replacement is the place to start.Call me crazy but I'd change it's battery. Quote Call me crazy but I'd change it's battery. But doesn't the clock down in the lower right hand corner of the task bar start showing inaccurate times when your battery starts getting low? The date and time seem to always stay accurate. A battery that's failing can put you in a postion where turning off for a SHORT time will have no effect on the clock or bios but turning off for a longer time will SCREW the clock and bios settings reverting the bios back to the default settings.Quote A battery that's failing can put you in a postion where turning off for a short time will have no effect on the clock or bios but turning off for a longer time will screw the clock and bios settings reverting the bios back to the default settings. Wow. Good to know. Many thanks.With the age of your computer, the price of a battery & the ease of fitting it has to be worth trying first.

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Just wondering if anyone might know if I might be seeing a sign of a failing power supply.
More often than not, when I turn on my computer, the first page of the BIOS comes up (showing the processor speed and memory), but it does not progress beyond that. However, when I simply turn off the computer and start it again, the first page comes back on the screen and it proceeds on normally (you can hear the floppy drive being found, etc.) and WINDOWS XP starts just fine and the computer runs just fine. Sometimes, it will start up normally, so I'm wondering if it's just not getting enough juice to crank it up. I have an old 250 watt power supply, so thought about putting a 350 in it. I have already RESET optimized BIOS settings and that doesn't make any difference......Thanksyep...new PSU would be good. Go for 450W minimum and don't buy a cheap one.

PATIO. 8-)What computer/motherboard make and model and what make of power supply does it have?Quote

yep...new PSU would be good. Go for 450W minimum and don't buy a cheap one.

patio. 8-)

Thank you very much, patio!Quote

What computer/motherboard make and model and what make of power supply does it have?

Well, actually it's an old Tekram Pentium II motherboard(P6B40-A4x, Rev 1.1) that over the years I have kept upgrading. The power supply in it now is the 2nd one I've had, a 250W supply, and it was put in used already. I'm running a PowerLeap upgrade on it with a 1.4 GHz Celeron cpu, with 1.0 Gb of RAM believe it or not, and it runs Windows XP just great! Well, after hearing that, the power supply replacement is the place to start.Call me crazy but I'd change it's battery. Quote

Call me crazy but I'd change it's battery.

But doesn't the clock down in the lower right hand corner of the task bar start showing inaccurate times when your battery starts getting low? The date and time seem to always stay accurate.

A battery that's failing can put you in a postion where turning off for a SHORT time will have no effect on the clock or bios but turning off for a longer time will SCREW the clock and bios settings reverting the bios back to the default settings.Quote

A battery that's failing can put you in a postion where turning off for a short time will have no effect on the clock or bios but turning off for a longer time will screw the clock and bios settings reverting the bios back to the default settings.

Wow. Good to know. Many thanks.With the age of your computer, the price of a battery & the ease of fitting it has to be worth trying first.

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