Am 06.11.2012 15:41, schrieb m.roth@5-cent.us:

Sorin Srbu wrote:

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Behalf Of Rainer Traut

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Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios is installed (A07 from year 2006). The pc is has not crashed so far, except the poweroff thingy so

I guess

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hw is ok. FWIW under C5 all was well.

A wild shot; if you have physical access to the computer, could you please open it up and check the capacitors, especially around the cpu?

Here's another one: there's an option in the BIOS of some servers for "return to previous state" on loss of power. If that's there, you might try it the other way.

I don't suppose the system's still under warranty....

No, no more warranty. :) But good point as it behaves as if the system powers down and within a second powers up again. But in Bios there is only a "Auto Power On" where you can set a time on weekdays/everydays when itself powers up. This is set to disabled. There is no "previous state". I willl open it up and look after the capacitors.