zumpen

Hi.

Just exchanged my work desktop to a brand new workstation: Dell Precision 690 (XP), 24" Widescreen....Everything running smooth until a couple a days ago, when it suddenly, just turned itself off! And this has happened a couple of more times since that. When booting up this morning, "CHKDSK" started. Deskside support have been scratching their heads for a week now, me too. Very annoying! Anyone out there who could give me a hint about this problem/ or a solution to it?

TIA, zumpen

schrags11

I'd say it's a power supply problem. I learned the hard way that there is no alternative to a decent power supply. What kind of video card do you have, number of hard drives, optical drives....?

aximbigfan

its a psu problem. send it back. the psu is likly non-standard.


chris

Tankman

Power supply is easy enough to replace.

Explain to Dell Support, the problem. They'll send you a replacement PSU and a
pickup slip for the faulty unit. No charge.

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zumpen

Originally Posted by Tankman

Power supply is easy enough to replace. Explain to Dell Support, the problem. They'll send you a replacement PSU and a pickup slip for the faulty unit. No charge.

Thanks guys!

I upgraded the BIOS today, from A01 to A03, maybe that will do the trick. If don't, that PSU is my next option. Thanks....

(Spec:
4 Xeon 1,6 GHz
4 GB RAM
nVidia Quadro FX 3500
160 GB Harddrive)

I use it for AutoCad and Quest (production simulation), and some ax syncing... :-)

/zumpen