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daywane:
its a old gateway
1.8 P4 intell
512 meg mem
Windows XP Home

this PC has been kicking along fine for years.
This is my main PC on a TV. I used it for .AVI files and console EMU,s
It now boots up for about 5 ( maybe 15 ) min and the screen goes black and the power button goes from green to orange.
nothing will respond.
I must unplug PC and restart all over.
but again it will only run maybe 5 min and shuts down.
no beeps no error code, nothing
I am thinking power supply?

I did try to reinstall windows. but after format it started to install and shut down.

Ginsu Victim:
Are the fans on your PSU, video card, and CPU working?

Kevin Mullins:
Ditto -

Sounds like it's getting hot somewhere and shutting itself down.
Now would also be a good time to clean and redo the heatsink compound between the CPU and heatsink, and of course make sure the cpu fan is running.

Ginsu Victim:
If the inside looks like this, it's time to clean it:

SavannahLion:
Clean then check your caps. Don't know about Gateway's quality control, but that PC comes from right around when  crap Chinese cap knock offs started flooding the market. I can't find the original site that "broke the news" complete with photos, but I did find a text copy of the site at: http://www.dashdist.com/1u2u/company/capacitor.html

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