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I have had this weird issue for a month now. I sometimes have trouble trying to initiate the PC to work. It has XP on it. When it boots it loads the progress bar then a power failure occurs. Sometimes it takes a longer time to restart (i.e: I type in my username and password) then it restarts. I noticed that the power supply's fan is not working. So is it the issue of a power supply fault?

regards, ~Abed

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  • Should be on Superuser.com
    – UpTheCreek
    Oct 31, 2010 at 18:32

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As your Power Supply's fan is not working your system may get over heated and trying to shut down to save the system to protect the hardware

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  • The power supply fan does not cool the system, it cools the power supply. You shouldn't keep trying to use a device without a fan when a fan was designed into the device. This will always end in bad things happening. Replace your power supply.
    – MaQleod
    Oct 31, 2010 at 21:00
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I'd change the power supply because the fan is obviously broken and therefore (as Sudantha stated) the pc is overheating and shutting down

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