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My parents own an old Compaq Pasorio w/ windows 98 second edition. It boots into windows fine but every time the computer would restart when they are doing someting online/in a application program or the computer is in idel. I would like to know your opinion on how to fix this problem. To me it could either be the power supply or the motyherboard. So if you can reply to this message to help me find an answer to this problem.

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Could be dying mobo, or just CPU overheating. With old PC's it could be just about anything. Goot thing would be if you can provoke such event. That would give you a testing method for troubleshooting.

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