Weirdest thing this morning and I thought I was doomed to squint at my tablet for the rest of my life because I certainly can't afford a new machine.
Went to power up and nothing happened at all. When I toggled the main power switch at the rear the speakers clunked their usual protest so there was power and I double checked with a voltage detector.
Took the side off the case and the usual power lights on the motherboard were glowing, but still no movement re: booting, fans etc.
So started setting up my iPAD if only to email everyone that I would be incommunicado for evermore....there's no way I am killing what's left of my eyesight squinting at that damn thing!
Then 15 minutes later the tower just powered up by itself. I've noticed occasionally startup will take a few seconds to kick off in the past when the area the machine is in is really cold, but 15 minutes?
What's that a sign of? Dicky power supply? I'm leaving the machine on permanently from now on, just in case.
Went to power up and nothing happened at all. When I toggled the main power switch at the rear the speakers clunked their usual protest so there was power and I double checked with a voltage detector.
Took the side off the case and the usual power lights on the motherboard were glowing, but still no movement re: booting, fans etc.
So started setting up my iPAD if only to email everyone that I would be incommunicado for evermore....there's no way I am killing what's left of my eyesight squinting at that damn thing!
Then 15 minutes later the tower just powered up by itself. I've noticed occasionally startup will take a few seconds to kick off in the past when the area the machine is in is really cold, but 15 minutes?
What's that a sign of? Dicky power supply? I'm leaving the machine on permanently from now on, just in case.
My Computer
System One
-
- Operating System
- Win 10 Pro x64 x 2
- Manufacturer/Model
- Alienware ALX x58
- CPU
- Intel® Core™ i7-975 Extreme O/C to 4.02 GHz, 8MB Cache
- Motherboard
- Asus® P6T Deluxe V2 X58 LGA1366
- Memory
- 24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
- Graphics Card(s)
- 1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295 Dual Core
- Sound Card
- Onboard Soundmax® High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Samsung XL2370 HD LED backlit 23" W/S 2ms response time
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- 2 x 500gb SATA II
1 x 1TB SATA II
1 external eSATA LaCie 3TB
(Non-RAID)
- PSU
- Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
- Case
- Unique
- Cooling
- 4 case fans @ CPU water cooling.
- Internet Speed
- 1gb/s up and down