[OT] flaky power supply?

[Andrew Gould]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> This sounds like a failing disk, not a failing PSU.
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> When I booted up my sister's computer, I heard an occasional click.
>> It reminds me of circuit breaker tripping, but not as loud.  When it
>> occurred while Windows is booting, the "busy" light that goes back and
>> forth paused, then continued, but the computer didn't finish booting.
>> When it occurred after boot up was complete, the computer would pause,
>> then everything would go flaky (Windows Explorer would fail, for
>> example.)
>>
>> The computer no longer successfully boots up as a config file is now "missing".
>>
>> Is this most likely a power supply problem?  Could it be a hard drive
>> or motherboard problem?
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Thank you to all who answered.  I will test the computer with a
different hard drive (and vice versa).

Andrew