I’m working on an eMachines 633id (633 celeron)with an Ilssan power supply, model ISP120SI (I think this is only a 120 watt power supply????) This computer will be shutdown for days and suddenly, power on by itself for no apparent reason, and at noapparent time – sometimes with a couple of days in between and sometimes, I can’t even get it to shutdown w/o immediately booting back up, and I have to pull the power cord to keep it shutdown. I pulled the case cover and blew out the inside of thecomputer as it was filthy – this seemed to solve the problem, so I decided that it had to be the dust conducting the electricity and somehow causing the computer to power on by itself. After 2 days of being plugged in and not powering itself on, I returned it to the owner and 5 days later, I was told it powered on by itself during the night 2x and then it powered on during the day and would not shutdown w/o rebooting itself immediately. I have been through the WinME operating system settings over and over again and all power settings (hibernation and sleep modes) have been disabled. I checked all settings in the bios also – disabled power management. I also have checked in software programs for a conflict of some kind (although I didn’t feel this to be the problem) and have found no solution in this area either (I shutdown all startup items, all win.ini items, all vxd drivers and it still did this). I also used restore and set the computer back to 9/1/02 to no avail. I then dicided it had to be power supply or power switch related. This one is really throwing me for a loop and I would appreciate any help you may give me – suggestions, anything, please!!!!
I think it needs a power supply- the biggest I can find is a 200 watt, but I don’t understand why the maker would only put a 120 watt in this computer in the first place;I must be missing something here.
Virginia
