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[Data]

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been trying to find the problem on my other halfs PC, randomly restarting.

To cut a very long story short I ended up replacing every component that was in the tower case, mobo, cpu, RAM graphics card and power supply but I still had the problem, it was driving me mad > how can you replace everything but still have the same problem?

Well yesterday I finally got to the bottom of it:

The reset switch on the case was dirty inside and was resetting the PC at random, so after all the work replacing components in the end it was a little bit of dirt behind a switch.

Never come across that problem before but when I next see a PC that has a restart problem the first thing I’m going to do is disconnect the reset button. 

[Freddy]

Wow, quite an adventure...  Not one to enjoy though.. 

[Carl2]

  I can remember replacing a reset switch in a case,  either recieved broken or I may have broken it.  Inexpensive normaly open switch, probably from Radio Shack.  Been looking at components for building, an urge I try to resist.
Carl2

[Snowcrash]

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. 

Well done for finding it. Amazing that a few pence switch can turn a box of electronics into an annoying heap of junk.

Who actually uses a reset switch? I use the main power on/off switch and the PSU switch when clocking/building. Leave it out.

Are you gonna use the spares for a 478 test rig?

[Freddy]

I occasionally use the reset switch when my PC doesn't wake up from sleep mode - bios thing apparently, which they don't seem to want to fix...apart from that I never use it.

[Data]

To stop it ever happening again I have disconnected the switch, im happy with that.

I’ve noticed on most PC’s these days if you hold the power switch in for about 5 seconds it does the same thing as the reset switch, can come in handy sometimes, if the reset button doesn’t work. I know what you mean Freddy about the PC not waking up, my Win7 rig does that sometimes too. 

Are you gonna use the spares for a 478 test rig?

Sounds like an idea, the 478’s are getting old now and are more likely to fail, so a test rig could come in handy, most of the PC’s I have out there are 775, but there are still a couple of 478’s.

Up to now I’ve been using my other half’s PC as a test rig 

The bits will be here if either of us need them… and thanks Snowy.

[Data]

They say things come in threes:

I had a call out to a PC that had the power button stuck in, (broken button number 2) I couldn’t repair it so I decided to put the guts into another second hand case, got it all put together, turned it off and on again a few times to test it and guess what?

The power button broke on that case too, (broken button number 3).

Odd isn’t it, 3 computer cases with broken buttons in a short space of time.

[Snowcrash]

What a pain. You have to build machine twice for 1 payment.

Should be the last of broken buttons foe a while.
Now all you need is a decent case. 

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