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| Thread ID: 84872 | 2007-11-21 09:51:00 | Failing HP/Compaq | mikebartnz (21) | Press F1 |
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| 613728 | 2007-11-22 10:06:00 | They truly are design for corporates: They tend to die exactly a week after the end of the three-year lease :D. Almost like they're actually DESIGNED to only last three years. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 613729 | 2007-11-22 18:25:00 | I think it would be better if you got that bee out of your bonnet. I don't have a bee in my bonnet at all. In the original post suggestions were asked to possible problems Any brite ideas will be greatfully recieved. So I made suggestions but from any answers it always came back as "its a power supply problem" so going by that why ask for other suggestions if you are certain in your mind its a PSU and not willing to listen to other possible reasons - some repair places don't always locate the problem and as you have found out then charge heaps in the process? I can honestly say I have seen many "shut downs' Like yours over the 14 years I have been working with PC's and they are not all psu related. Trying to save you some money in case you do decide to fix it - example: how would you feel if you spent more money on another PSU and soon after the same thing happened - and it wasn't the PSU at all - More money wasted and right back where you started. By that time you could have just about brought a new PC. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 613730 | 2007-11-22 23:42:00 | I don't have a bee in my bonnet at all. In the original post suggestions were asked to possible problems So I made suggestions but from any answers it always came back as "its a power supply problem" so going by that why ask for other suggestions if you are certain in your mind its a PSU and not willing to listen to other possible reasons - some repair places don't always locate the problem and as you have found out then charge heaps in the process? I can honestly say I have seen many "shut downs' Like yours over the 14 years I have been working with PC's and they are not all psu related. Trying to save you some money in case you do decide to fix it - example: how would you feel if you spent more money on another PSU and soon after the same thing happened - and it wasn't the PSU at all - More money wasted and right back where you started. By that time you could have just about brought a new PC. With every post of yours it was as if you wanted to prove me wrong rather than just make sensible suggestions. Others read the posts and came to the same conclusions as myself and now I have absolutely no doubt as to it being the PSU and the best suggestion apart from Metla's was to bung the parts in another ATX box. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 613731 | 2007-11-22 23:59:00 | With every post of yours it was as if you wanted to prove me wrong rather than just make sensible suggestions. Others read the posts and came to the same conclusions as myself and now I have absolutely no doubt as to it being the PSU and the best suggestion apart from Metla's was to bung the parts in another ATX box. No no :groan: I'm simiply saying it may not be the power supply, other things can cause it. Heres an example: last year I had a customers PC doing what sounds like how you described your problems, shutting down , hard to restart etc. Another company changed the power supply in the PC - like your problem, it seemed to fix it for a while. Then it started again, he then replaced the PSU again himself - worked OK for while - then started to play up. After looking at it myself, and testing every single part in the PC - the actual fault was not a PSU. The problem was the thermal paste between the CPU and the Heat sink had dried out and was causing the cpu to overheat while doing certain things - I put some good thermal paste in, reseated every thing and to this day its never shut down again - thats over a year ago. All I am simply trying to point out is there can be several reasons as to why its doing what its doing and it may or may not be a power supply. If it is a power supply then great - problem solved but if its not then the problem continues. The question was asked what could it be so I provided several reasons. A faulty on/off switch on the case can do the same thing , a faulty motherboard can do it. I'm not going to say it is a PSU problem when I know for a fact there can be other reasons. 1 question - assuming the internals are transfered into another case/PSU and it still does it - does that mean its still the PSU? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 613732 | 2007-11-23 00:01:00 | I used to have a D510. I'm glad nothing major went wrong with it before I on-sold it - it has a triangle power supply that you have to get from HP. My D510 had a very annoying flaw - the sideways mounted PCI slots were supposed to fit a full size PCI card, but I never got anything to fit in there properly. The D510s all had very unreliable Maxtor hard drives in them. Did they continue that trend with the D530s? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 613733 | 2007-11-23 02:18:00 | I used to have a D510. I'm glad nothing major went wrong with it before I on-sold it - it has a triangle power supply that you have to get from HP. My D510 had a very annoying flaw - the sideways mounted PCI slots were supposed to fit a full size PCI card, but I never got anything to fit in there properly. The D510s all had very unreliable Maxtor hard drives in them. Did they continue that trend with the D530s? HP are good like that, they usually make it so you have to purchase their own Components - "standard Parts" usually dont quite fit right. Hard Drives - don't know about the D530's but they used to use Maxtor in every thing, this sometimes caused all sorts of funny problems , even problems as the original poster has described - some of the newer PC's over the last year or so are using far better Seagate Drives. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 613734 | 2007-11-23 03:40:00 | Friends don't let friends buy HP computers :lol: | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 613735 | 2007-11-23 03:59:00 | The D510s I have bought have mostly had decent Seagate drives, and they're very reliable (the whole PC). I have never seen one die. The D530s are much worse though, although I don't think they have Maxtors. Can't be bothered checking right now :p |
george12 (7) | ||
| 613736 | 2007-11-23 04:12:00 | Friends don't let friends buy HP computers :lol: Trouble is you don't know about it until they have bought it and have problems.:angry |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 613737 | 2007-11-23 04:17:00 | 1 question - assuming the internals are transfered into another case/PSU and it still does it - does that mean its still the PSU? You are right it is not a bee in your bonnet you are more like a dog with a bone. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
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