ninethreeeleven
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My father has a Dell Dimension 4500, starting last Friday it started shutting down randomly. No warning just powering off.
It would do this under hardly any stress, we were just typing in the security code for the wireless adapter, which is externally powered so thats not an issue. The only thing we added to the computer are a DVD burner to replace the old drive and a PCI 802.11g card to replace the adapter that I could not get to work.
I check all caps on the mobo and they look fine, I checked all power connections and they are fine.
I think its either overheating or a PSU issue, but it seeing how its not being stressed I cant see overheating as a true possibility.
It would do this under hardly any stress, we were just typing in the security code for the wireless adapter, which is externally powered so thats not an issue. The only thing we added to the computer are a DVD burner to replace the old drive and a PCI 802.11g card to replace the adapter that I could not get to work.
I check all caps on the mobo and they look fine, I checked all power connections and they are fine.
I think its either overheating or a PSU issue, but it seeing how its not being stressed I cant see overheating as a true possibility.