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Originally Posted by kinetic
Puzzle solved , I think....
New power supply, 650W replaced a 400W.
Thanks to the people who suggested the PS because
it hasn't missed a beat yet.
No freezes and no Dead on power-up/ no POST
behaviour.
I did notice a week ago before I had done the changeover
that doing a right-click on MyComputer/Properties
showed the CPU as a 1.8Ghz and I know for sure it
is a 2.8Ghz because I have seen it there in the past.
I'm not sure about ATX power supplies but isn't the 3.3V
for the CPU?...maybe if that had failed or was intermittently
failing, the loss of CPU voltage settable clock speed was
showing up as incorrect (in Properties) and showing me
all along?! 
Computers!...... 
Steve |
I spoke too soon.
The last two days the symptoms returned!
If it's not the power supply, then next on the list of maybes
was faulty RAM or motherboard?
If it's any help, the last 2 of 6 times it's frozen while up and
running I was doing fairly memory intensive stuff (having a go at
the SPSP processing challenge).
Also the symptom of no POST/BIOS on switch on happens.
So , exactly the same problem.
Would that point to the RAM?
Advice appreciated!
Steve