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AcerAspire RC500 shutting down

The RC500 just shuts down and when you press the power button it is dead if you leave for a time up to a day sometimes it boots up fine and other times you power it on and it can takes 2-30 seconds and shuts down again without warning i also know of at least 1 other machine with the same fault (could this be anything to do with the power supply if so what type of replacement do i need)

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  • hallmark666 Mar 27, 2008

    Hi

    The wattage says it's a 200Watt

    The earthing looks OK

    and the Power is supplied via the speaker cable (power supply to the Speaker then a kettle lead from speaker to tower). I was thinking maybe change the power supply for a higher wattage?



    Many Thanks

  • dhecz Apr 05, 2008

    Hello im dhecz, i have also Acer Aspire RC500 Desktop, the problem is similar, after 2 to 5 hrs using the pc it will shutdown and never open again,

    after 2 days sometimes it works and shotdown again, i try to turn the power supply fan, the pc works... my idia is to change the power supply is it right.. please help me...

    thanks..

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I have an RC500 which displayed similar problems. I replaced the power supply and this fixed the problem.

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Hi
check your power supply waltage.
check your earhing.
check power cable condition.

  • Anonymous Mar 27, 2008

    change your smps,ram and try .

    check also mother bord circuit hitting event.

  • Anonymous Mar 27, 2008

    change your smps,ram and try .

    check also mother bord circuit hitting event.

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