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Scottish2008
Jan 22, 2008, 05:50 AM
I have a home made computer which a few of my friends helped me make. I have a black tower with an display screen which displays in blue and provides me the tempter of my hard drive and cpu. As well it has blue lights all around it. I paid allot for a top of the line mother board, CPU and heat sink and fan for the cpu. To skip the rest of the details about my Tower. I have a problem with the computer restarting all the time. It would just happing out of the blue. Some times it happens over and over again. Does any one have any suggestions on where to find out what's wrong with it. I believe it has something to do with the tower or the power supply. Any suggestions would be a great help.

Scottish2008
Jan 22, 2008, 08:54 AM
To keep people up dated. I have purchased a new tower and a power supply. I have put all the interior components from the old tower to the new tower. I as of yet have any problems with it restarting. So the problem is ether the power supply or the tower itself. How can I test the power supply to see if it's the power supply or the tower. Thanks

AskGary
Mar 30, 2008, 02:52 PM
Most likely, the tower does not have anything to do with it, unless the motherboard was grounded somehow to the tower.

The problem seems like a power supply issue. You can test the power supply on one of your friends computers, but I would not recommend this. It sounds like the power supply is bad and you could risk destroying some of your friends' components.

bendingoutward
Apr 8, 2008, 06:05 PM
Additionally, if you do a lot of this sort of work, a power supply tester can be purchased for not too many dollars.