Since I live in a different time zone, I didn't get any replies from anyone yesterday morning ( my time ).
So, I managed to get a tech to check my pc, last night. After checking, he knows, what I meant shutting off in seconds after switching on.
So, he went to safe mode, but the computer didn't shut off and still working. He did some other checking with my computer, which I don't know ( yesterday night I had some unexpected visitors, so I had to juggle my time with the tech & the visitors ).
But I know he went to "msconfig" ( if I'm not wrong of the spelling) & saw something alien, that is some small "boxes" character. After removing the boxes the computer can work as usual. But the "boxes" came back again when he checked msconfig. His suspicion & he repeated that it is only a guess, that it could be a worm. He needs more through checking he said. The mobo looks OK by visual inspection. He doesn't suspect power supply anymore.
After he left, I restarted the computer , boom...same thing happened again. But I restarted again the comp and it worked well without shuting off. So I quickly burned some important documents. At that time, I noted my software firewall was disabled and my comp is still working without shutting off by itself. I did a scan with ewido, nothing found. So I went to bed.
This morning, I switched on the comp, still working properly, no shutting off in seconds. Again I noted my fw was disabled.
Tonite, I'm going to remove the software fw and monitor the comp for anything else. Meanwhile, I'm going to learn from my nephew about reinstalling computers.
If nothing happens, then it is OK, but if the damn thing happens again, I'm going to reinstall my comp.
BTW, DickUpinya, take it easy. The guys over here are good fellas. Read as many posts you can, you'll understand what I mean. To me, when I'm in s**t , these guys help me out a lot. So I'm sticking here.
Cheers. ![:)]()
EDIT - Additional info :
The fans are working.
I've got 3x256 MB Kingston RAM. Out of which 2x256 MB RAM was installed 3 weeks ago. No problem on RAM so far. No beeps , no other sounds, no error message.