On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:41:17 UTC+1, Andrew wrote:
On 08/07/2019 20:01, GB wrote:
On 08/07/2019 19:57, Richardmerri wrote:
On Monday, 8 July 2019 17:47:43 UTC+1, The Natural PhilosopherÂ* wrote:
On 08/07/2019 15:39, Richardmerri wrote:
Hello all.Â* Can anyone help? My 64 bit Mesh machine (mesh computer
nero 9950hd) switches off about 10 sec. after switching on. Can
anyone suggest a way forward to identify the cause of this
problem...Â* Any help would be much appreciated.

Richard.

At a guess it is so loaded up with gaming hardware the PSU cant cope


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Grateful thanks to everyone...Â* I had to be away for awhile but now I
can respond to all the points mentioned...Â* Both CPU and Case fans are
running okay, there was some, but not much, dust in the CPU heatsink
but all that has been cleaned when removing the processor.Â* The
motherboard appears to be physically 'sound' with no blown caps. I
have run the machine with minimum load on the PSU and with covers
removed but still the same delinquent behaviour... The actual delay is
circa 12/16 seconds.Â* I had a similar problem about six years ago when
the machine simply shut down without warning after one to four hours
and the solution at that time was to replace the PSU.Â* So my strategy
now is to obtain a known good PSU as GB suggests so I'll replace the
500W version with a 600W new from eBay??Â* I will keep everyone apprised.


Get a decent PSU.

That will be more than the computer is worth. It's 10 years old,
so unless it has a Firewire port which is used for something I
would get a newer one.

A 500watt PS should be plenty powerful enough for most purposes.

If you must get a new P/S, go for one with a higher efficiency
rating, described as "80+" gold/white/bronze etc




Thanks again and kindest to regards all... Richard.



Me again! I am now faced with the problem of accessing the data on the Mesh machine hard drive which has two NTFS partitions, one for the OS and the largest one for the data. I have a 64 bit machine running Linux Mint which has a spare SATA port to which I can connect the ex. Mesh hard drive but I suspect that Linux will not directly read the data files? I believe the Linux kernel may have a sequence that will read NTFS files... Can anyone help me here?

Kind regards... Richard