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I was troubleshooting a computer once that would randomly shut off during boot and, one component at a time, I replaced everything on it including the motherboa
by frogpelt 6y ago
I was troubleshooting a computer once that would randomly shut off during boot and, one component at a time, I replaced everything on it including the motherboard to no avail.
Finally I took all the parts out of the original computer and put them in a different chassis and it worked! Put them back in the old chassis and back to the old problem.
Eventually I noticed that there was an extra stand-off in the first computer case and it was shorting out the motherboard.
It was literally the chassis causing the problem.
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