I have another PC besides the one I always uses. This PC here have served its purpose as a media center PC (as in, TV replacement) and working PC for my sister. And today, It showed weird problem.
It keeps turning off itself, and by turning off, I mean it just goes dead, not politely showing any shutdown screen. That, by itself ruled out any virus-related, or even software-related problem. I made that point sure by leaving it idle at the bios screen. It goes dead.
Knowing that it’s a hardware problem, I opened the lid of the PC, and found that the case fan isn’t connected. I then connected it, close the lid, and turned it on, idling at the bios screen. It died, again.
I grabbed my spare Power supply unit (You always need one) from the cupboard, and replaced the one on the PC. Plugged everything, close the lid, leaving it idling at the bios screen. It still dies.
Now, the PC is placed under the desk in the corner of the room, where it is kinda hard to do any work on the PC. So I carried it to my desk to see what’s wrong. And in a minute, I figured it out. The CPU fan is dead.
I feel stupid for not realising it earlier, I closed the lid everytime I changed something before, so I didn’t see it. And the fan was never a noisy one to begin with, so I can’t tell by listening.
Anyway, the solution for this problem is simple enough, I grabbed another CPU fan sitting around and installed it. Problem solved.
This is not a hard problem. I just took the wrong step by closing the lid of the PC before making sure everything is in order. Keep your head cool and double-check everything if you find such problem. I just forget those words. Silly me.
