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Well--that was not as smooth a transition as I had hoped for!
Rad--remember a year or two back when you made a move to a new place--your desktop stopped working--it's when you switched over to a laptop? We decided then that the *karma* was not right for that system at its new surroundings!!! I think we decided you should move back to your old place!!!
Well, my system, when I hooked it up at the new house--it immediately started making some vague *clicking* sounds--I think it was coming from the built-in *speaker* (if you can call that gizmo a *speaker*
) on the motherboard (never a good sign). The system re-booted spontaneously several times--and then finally booted to WinXP.
But......it began to randomly re-boot--maybe after a minute or two, or perhaps up to 10-15 minutes--it was never consistent and you could not count on when it was going to crash.
Well--I just didn't have time to trouble shoot--the new house--though structurally sound--it is a *project* house--it needs lots of *tender loving care* (TLC) to bring it back to it true *glory*--painting, patching holes in the plaster board, leaking faucet seals and toilet valves replaced--lots of little mechanical things adjusted or replaced--just couldn't dedicate enough time to computer problems!
Yesterday--finally did some trouble shooting--nothing helped--disconnected all unnecessary components--still no joy!
Finally decided this must be a power supply problem--but couldn't tell you exactly why--except I had run out of any other thoughts. But I didn't know if it was the transformer (PSU)--or maybe a capacitor on the mother board. I had replaced the PSU a little over a year ago because the old one had developed a bad connector between the PSU and the motherboard (how does that happen--it just sits there statically???!)--but if I wiggled it--the system would power on!
So I didn't have any good way to test except to replace the PSU to see if that helped. Went to a local computer shop, found a suitable replacement, and installed it a half hour ago.
Well, I was relieved to not hear those clicking noises. It booted without incident--and no re-boots thus far--so my fingers are crossed that all is now well--I'm not really wanting to get a new computer and start over--just not a good time--the *project* house still has much to be done--but I hope to have a little more free time going forward.
I will begin to look over the postings I've not had a chance to respond to for the last couple weeks--bump any up to the top that if they need attention. It will still take some time to get back to a *normal* routine, however!