Ok my problem is..
I built my own computer about 2 years ago i think it was and everything has been fine... but...
lately my computer has been acting really weird as in when i try and boot it up it turns on for about 1 second then shuts off and keeps doing that about 3-6 times before it will stay on... and sometime it will crash after everything is booted up and i cant figure out whats wrong with it...
My friend helped by looking at some websites and at first we thought my power source was shot because yesterday it wouldnt stay on at all it would keep turning on for about 1 second then shutting down....
but usually when your power source blows out it sounds like a gun or atleast theres smoke... neither happened for me...
so we thought it could be the ram, unlikely, but possible, so i went to my computer and took out my 3 sticks of ram (which equals one GB), and it started up normally but kept beeping which it usually does if the ram is taken out, so i thought that was kinda odd and then i put the ram back in but before doing that blew off all the dust that had collected there, and so once the ram was back in i turned on my computer and it turned on just fine, so i thought it might be ok, and so today i turned it on and it started up but shut down right away... and then it happened again but on the 3rd time it turned on and windows was on the loading screen and then it shut off.. so i took out the ram again and put it back in and it turned on.. and then shut off after i loaded up a game i was going to play, so now my computer is on and hasnt shut off so far, and i still dont know whats wrong with it, and its really irritating .
so my thoughts are "is it the ram?", "is a part of my HD corrupted from viruses?", "is my power source failing?", "or is something really bad going on and i might need a new computer?"
so i thought id post here and see if anyone could help me out
thanks for reading my long long story and i hope you can help.
P.S. i used to leave my computer on for up to 6 days without a shut down when i hosted a game server for a couple of my friends to play around on and i was thinking maybe that had something to do with it (i dont do this anymore)