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down1nit
Jan 10, 2004

outlive your enemies
Yeah check all your ports too, make sure none are damaged. Cord frayed on any USB device? Check both ends.

Generally a short will shut the computer off without attempting to restart itself but not always. To be sure it restarts by itself yeah? Set bios to defaults. Reset cmos... Save your game often.

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down1nit
Jan 10, 2004

outlive your enemies
Good plan to rebuild. Take the whole board out even, gently clean it, then boot it on cardboard boxes to see if it restarts still. Take the power supply out to do that. You can quickly short the power on pins so nothing but power, mouse/kb and video are connected.

down1nit
Jan 10, 2004

outlive your enemies
Another thought. Did you install mouse software for it? Maybe that's crashing?

down1nit
Jan 10, 2004

outlive your enemies
The delay of dpi adjustment is the tell. Its as bad as "free DVD player" programs on prebuilts.

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