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My daughter has an Athlon 64 based computer that my son and knocked together for her. Yes, I know, this is older technology, but it works. Anyway, a week or so a go she reported the machine got as far as the CPU doing POST and stopped. She had tried it a number of times with the same result.
We traveled down and collected it, plugged it in and switched on, and, guess what, it worked fine with no problems! It even started download updates for windows and office. So, we need a diagnosis.
My daughter tells me that where they live, west of Edinburgh, they suffer noticeable dimming of the lights when the factories nearby start up in the morning and that, with other incidents of dimming, suggests that brown outs may be to blame. I don't know what power supplies are supposed to do if the voltage of the mains drops. She also tells me that the lights dim a little when the electric shower is turned on which did not sound great but I haven't used such a shower like that for years so I don't know if that is normal.
So, is this a brown out problem and is there a solution, apart from moving home to a quieter place? If not, any suggestions? We are both stuck because the thing works fine in our house.
Thanks for any help
We traveled down and collected it, plugged it in and switched on, and, guess what, it worked fine with no problems! It even started download updates for windows and office. So, we need a diagnosis.
My daughter tells me that where they live, west of Edinburgh, they suffer noticeable dimming of the lights when the factories nearby start up in the morning and that, with other incidents of dimming, suggests that brown outs may be to blame. I don't know what power supplies are supposed to do if the voltage of the mains drops. She also tells me that the lights dim a little when the electric shower is turned on which did not sound great but I haven't used such a shower like that for years so I don't know if that is normal.
So, is this a brown out problem and is there a solution, apart from moving home to a quieter place? If not, any suggestions? We are both stuck because the thing works fine in our house.
Thanks for any help
