Peter composed on 2014-10-20 19:16 (UTC+0200):
...As far as I could see, there weren't any obviously blown capacitors on the mainboard and the timescales mentioned didn't quite seem to match this system's generation.
Its timescale's genesis is in motherboards. OTOH, PS development, production and QC are rather different from motherboards. It's apparently easier to get a PS to survive its warranty period with lower quality components, and in the process kill a motherboard that might have survived a better PS.
It's in a standard midi tower case. A very bog standard home PC by all accounts.
So not a common brand, generic in the true sense of the word? How much does its PS weigh? Light tends to have a high correlation to cheap in a PS. Open up that PS if you didn't already, and check the brands if there are no caps obviously bad. http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=388 Changing bad ones successfully in a PS tends to be easier than those on a motherboard.
I've known all sorts of failed components over the years on my systems, but this intrigues me because normally it results in a system that doesn't switch on at all, a blank screen, or dodgy goings on once booted, whereas this comes on and goes off again shortly after.
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