To be honest what was the first problem is it had difficulty turning on. After a month of working with my computer, when the actual computer would run it would give me this bios error out of the speakers. It was this young womans voice alerting me that there was “A CPU error”. I replaced the motherboard and using all my old parts the cpu still kept failing and finally i just surrendered and kept my computer running.

After a month or two the computer’s inability to start up after being turned off, i got concerned. The major problem is the first two or three attempts at restarting the computer made it to where it wouldn’t actually load windows. I sounded as though the video card was disengaging. We now realize it was because of a lack of power to run the video card.

After my computer failed to start several different times the video card began to not put out an image to my monitor. I decided my video card must be going out. I replaced my video card and IT still had problems restarting. This time it was not engaging the hard drives.

AFter the last month of keeping my computer logged in and running, my computer was turned off and it was the last step the power supply would take.

AFter being turned off i spent several times restarting it and the way the cycle worked this time is that
At first it would log into windows for five minutes and then the video would cut out.
I would restart my computer and no video would display after the bios login screen.
After a sequence of several restarts the computer would stop having an image for even the bios screen.

During this whole performance Trey was working in the background diagnosing everything. In fact right after i switched out the video card he downloaded a voltage monitor and noticed that there wasn’t enough power being sent to the processor. It was his conclusion that my power supply was failining.

This is of course when i argued with him tooth and nail. I had never heard of a power supply “going” out. I’ve heard of them breaking and i’ve heard of them working. NEver had i heard them slowly fail to produce the power necessary. In the end i just decided to take it to Best Buy and see if they could run a diagnostic on my power supply. I wanted to disprove the power supply diagnosis for the cheapest possible to be completly honest.

Anyways, it turned out that the power supply was actually failing. I was wrong. Trey was right. I’m sure i’ll never live it down. On the positive side this is the sweetest argument i’ve ever lost because i’m enjoying my computer completly.