Duron booting troubles

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Gawd
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A friend of mine has a 1200mhz duron and 256meg of ram, with two optical drives and a single harddrive.

It has a 250watt psu. If you leave it off all night and turn it on in the morning it doesn't boot. It turns on but it just doesn't post. If you leave it on like that for 10 minutes and then turn it off and then back on again it boots fine.

He was told by the place he bought it from that it will do that normally when it's cold. He keeps his house pretty cool at 60F.

My guess is that it's the psu. Any other ideas?
 
Yeah I that's the second thing I thought it would be. They won't fix it for him because they say it's just because it needs to warm up, and it's normal. I myself think that 60F is not too cold for a pc to funtion normally in.
 
Yeah in a cold enviroment.. Atleast that's what he said they said. And it's his first pc so he really doesn't know any better.
 
My room isnt much warmer and mine start right off. I would say he needs a new PSU. Electronics run better when they are cold.
 
Ok I'll tell him that it's more then likely the PSU, and if they don't want to fix it then he'll just have to try another one first.
 
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