I need help my computer wouldn't work until left unplugged for 2-3 hours

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pepo36

ello
my computer :
foxconn motherboard
intel celeron 2.9 ghz
256 MB ram
running win xp
while i was working on it suddenly it shut down when i tried to turn it on again
it just went well till Winxp logo shown then a blank blue screen and it turned off again
it's always z same except if i left it for 2 or 3 hours unplugged it works well till i shut it down if i tried to turn it on again the blank blue screen appears again
that means that b4 i can work on my comp i need to unplug it for 2 hours (that sucks)
i suspect a power suply problem
can anyone help me?
 
Something needs to cool off until it will work again. You could start with a PSU upgrade. When it's running (next time you get it running) have the side off and feel around from part to part (carefully) and try to find a really hot component.
 
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With regards to your problem, i'd suspect the cpu or gpu of overheating, what graphics card have you got?
 
well i've been running it now 4 over four hours and i still cant find anything hot
my motherboard has a built in graphics card
thnxxx so much guyz 4 replying i didnt think this will work
 
you're welcome :)

you could try stressing the pc a bit, try playing music and going on a few pages in different tabs (if you have firefox/ie7). that will stress the cpu. if it heats up enough it will turn the pc off. i think you can get programs to use up 100% of your cpu but i haven't used them so i don't know what they're called :(

if it stays on even after you've stressed the cpu, try watching a full screen video or fast paced game to push the graphics a bit. if it still doesn't turn off then maybe it's the psu that's your problem
 
yeah man u were right
when i tried to run a game the computer shut down
so u r saying that it's a motherboard problem?
 
if it shut down when you played a game i expect it's the graphics

see if you can borrow somebody's graphics card for a few minutes, if you play the game again and it doesn't shut down then you can buy yourself a graphics card and you should be ok :)
 
goto
control panel>
system>
advanced tab>
startup and recovery - settings>
under the title - system failure
untick - automatically restart

This will then give you a BSOD. Read that it should give you some more information.

Also, how many beeps do you get on start-up?

Regards Jase :)
 
ok now i tried what u said jase123
the computer only works in safe mode , when i try to log on to normal mode i get BSOD after the winxp logo saying
bad_pool_caller
0x000000c2 (0x00000007 , 0x00000cd4 , 0x00000000 , 0xffa467f4)
but this numbers sometimes changes and sometimes it mentions somehting about win32k.sys or NTFS.sys but i cant write them all
also it sometimes does the same in safe mode
um starting to get pissed off by this silly computer plz help me
 

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