My Mac Mini keeps shutting itself down; why?

Question

Hello,
When I woke up this morning, I went to use my new Mac Mini. For some reason, it will appear on the monitor for about five seconds, and then nothing will show on the monitor at all. Attempting to restart the Mac Mini only finds it doing the same thing. I am wondering why?
T.

Answer 1

The very first computer I ever had was an 8086; it came with a 5 1/4 in drive and little else. One of the floppies it came with had? Windows 1.0. The thing had precious little memory, no hard drive, and if you ever wanted to do anything with it you had better be addicted to coffee.
The printer I had literally cranked; it was the loudest thing I have ever heard and it made the stand I had it on rock and sway back and forth. When the 8088 came it out was like, 'Ooooo!' And when the first 286 came out? Yikes - it was like a revolution or something. The 486 I had was something I kept for years; I actually wrote a number of college papers on these computers.
When Windows 3.0 was released it was heaven sent or something - it was as if color had finally emerged into the world, as well as an operating system you could actually do something with. At about the same time, I remember my father using a little Mac with a tiny, tiny little screen that went, 'Eeep!' whenever he messed up something.
The tiny screen on that Mac is what kept me leaning towards Windows. My thought at the time was, 'My God - how will I ever be able to see to write papers on that tiny screen?' Now I look back on those days and wonder about how differently things may have gone if I had chosen to use Mac computers.
Oh well. I am enjoying the heck out of this Mac Mini; I only wish I could afford the Mac laptop I want too.
Thanks for the reply, it's not often I run into someone who even knows what an 8088 is.
Tom.