Did my old computer just DIE? For good?

[GucciBoy]

This is just an old computer I use as a jukebox and run a tv tuner off it.
8 yr old P2 350, IBM Aptiva.

Last couple days it would reboot all of a sudden after freezing running the tv tuner. This is a spare computer. And now it wont power on. It was all cleaned out (dust) a couple days ago since I was doing the other computers>

If it is, then I guess its time to sell the parts to who needs it.

[Kamen]

Does it have an internet connection? It may be infected with spyware.
My new shuttle was rebooting by istelf every 10 mins or so... freaked me out but I did a scan on spybot and found the facking spyware and removed it. Problem solved, and I can continue my gaming worry free

[GucciBoy]

Originally posted by Kamen
Does it have an internet connection? It may be infected with spyware.
My new shuttle was rebooting by istelf every 10 mins or so... freaked me out but I did a scan on spybot and found the facking spyware and removed it. Problem solved, and I can continue my gaming worry free

No internet, no spyware on it when I disconnected the ethernet.

I got it to power on, but still wondering why it just randomly reboots every now and then.

[Kamen]

Perhaps your psu is starting to die. But all parts die eventually.

[koopkoop2]

How exactly did you clean it out and where did you do it? It may be possible you blew it up with ESD.

[GucciBoy]

Originally posted by koopkoop2
How exactly did you clean it out and where did you do it? It may be possible you blew it up with ESD.

can air, in the basement in a storage room

[Despair*]

Sounds like a power supply issue to me as kamen suggested. On my computer I experienced similiar problems like that a few years back where it would freeze up sometimes, and reboot randomly. And if your computer is 8 years old, the power supply has been around quite a long time, so maybe replacing it would solve this problem.