computer shutsdown after turned on

slyd0g24 · 12-24-2008, 05:10 PM

hey guys and gals. I'm out of ideas and in need of some help.. hope you guys can help. I have windows xp with a new mother board cause my last one caught on fire due my g/f bumping into it. so i put the motherboard in and then something went bad with my power supply and now i got a new power supply it turns on. It turns on for about 30 secs and then shuts down. the windows screen will pop up and sometimes the screen pops up that ask if i want to start off in safe mode or not and then just shuts down. i tried playing with the switch on the power box and made sure that all the screws were in the holes in the mother board. It seems like everything is running fine then a dead silence fills the room from the tower shutting down. hope you guys can help.. thanks

Tumbleweed36 · 12-24-2008, 05:20 PM

What kind of thermal paste did you use to put the CPU/Heatsink together?

BTW, did you use a hard drive from the old computer and put it in the new motherboard without doing preparations or a repair install?

slyd0g24 · 12-24-2008, 06:06 PM

well bub. I left the old heat sink stuff on.. wasn't that much left on there but i didn't put much thought into it. Also the hard drive is still the same old one from the last mother board. I didn't format it or anything. What do you mean preparations are you talking about? btw thanks for answering me back quickly

Tumbleweed36 · 12-24-2008, 06:32 PM

First off, any time you change the CPU/Heatsink or take it apart at all, you MUST clean off the old thermal paste and put new on. I suggest you do that because if you don't, they get too hot to stay on because of little air pockets between the CPU/Heatsink:

Applying Artic Silver Thermal Paste

Since you have put an old hard drive in a newer motherboard, it is looking for the new motherboard chipset drivers, but the ones for the old motherboard are on that drive. Therefore, you will either have to do a clean format/install, or a Repair Install of the drive. After that, you would have to load SP2 and the motherboard chipset drivers. If that is not done, they rarely work enough to change the drivers. Here are instructions for a Repair Install. Read them carefully before you decide what you want to do:

Here are Repair Install instructions:

slyd0g24 · 12-28-2008, 05:13 PM

alright, i changed the thermal paste stuff and i formatted my hard drive and tried running it with the xp disk and it gets to the blue screen at the beginning. It sounds like the hard drive is starting to move faster and then is shuts down still. I tried pressing tad to enter the bios and it brings me to the "press button to run from cd..." screen and i pressed del to enter set up but after a few seconds of being in the setup screen it shuts down again. .. and idea's tumbleweed? oh when i turn it on right after it shuts down it just simply turns on then off. It's like i have to wait a few seconds before i can turn it on

Tumbleweed36 · 12-28-2008, 06:37 PM

Since you are doing a clean install now, do you have the bios set to boot in this order:

CDRom - 1st
Floppy - 2nd
Hard Drive - 3rd

Then, in the Hard Drive Priority (may be worded differently) area do you have the drive you are trying to install on....... is the correct drive listed FIRST.

slyd0g24 · 12-28-2008, 08:47 PM

well sir, I tried to set up the bios and when i press tab top enter the bios the computer has trouble and reboots. It wont let me get the the bios.. I tried reinstalling xp and it keeps telling me to format my hard drive over and over again. I formatted about 6 times now. including quick format and the long format and it still will not install xp. It's almost like my hard drive is faulty. But i found out that when i don't have the side of my computer on it dont shutdown. Like it was over heating or something. My fan seems to be working fine but it might because that i have the computer under my desk on carpet. So it may be overheating or something. Any idea's ? Thanks for all the help by the way.

slyd0g24 · 12-28-2008, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by slyd0g24

well sir, I tried to set up the bios and when i press tab top enter the bios the computer has trouble and reboots. It wont let me get the the bios.. I tried reinstalling xp and it keeps telling me to format my hard drive over and over again. I formatted about 6 times now. including quick format and the long format and it still will not install xp. It's almost like my hard drive is faulty. But i found out that when i don't have the side of my computer on it dont shutdown. Like it was over heating or something. My fan seems to be working fine but it might because that i have the computer under my desk on carpet. So it may be overheating or something. Any idea's ? Thanks for all the help by the way.

oh ya, so my computer still shutsdown but only when it's sitting straight up and down. I have it kinda on a angle and it's working but it started loading windows xp and it says 39 minutes left on installation

Tumbleweed36 · 12-29-2008, 08:11 AM

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Originally Posted by slyd0g24

well sir, I tried to set up the bios and when i press tab top enter the bios the computer has trouble and reboots. It wont let me get the the bios.. I tried reinstalling xp and it keeps telling me to format my hard drive over and over again. I formatted about 6 times now. including quick format and the long format and it still will not install xp. It's almost like my hard drive is faulty. But i found out that when i don't have the side of my computer on it dont shutdown. Like it was over heating or something. My fan seems to be working fine but it might because that i have the computer under my desk on carpet. So it may be overheating or something. Any idea's ? Thanks for all the help by the way.

Take the side of the case off and blow a house fan directly on the CPU area and see if it stays on long enough to check the bios setup menu.

12-24-2008, 05:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
slyd0g24 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Windows xo	computer shutsdown after turned on hey guys and gals. I'm out of ideas and in need of some help.. hope you guys can help. I have windows xp with a new mother board cause my last one caught on fire due my g/f bumping into it. so i put the motherboard in and then something went bad with my power supply and now i got a new power supply it turns on. It turns on for about 30 secs and then shuts down. the windows screen will pop up and sometimes the screen pops up that ask if i want to start off in safe mode or not and then just shuts down. i tried playing with the switch on the power box and made sure that all the screws were in the holes in the mother board. It seems like everything is running fine then a dead silence fills the room from the tower shutting down. hope you guys can help.. thanks

12-24-2008, 05:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,668 OS: XP Professional	Re: computer shutsdown after turned on What kind of thermal paste did you use to put the CPU/Heatsink together? BTW, did you use a hard drive from the old computer and put it in the new motherboard without doing preparations or a repair install? __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread. Last edited by Tumbleweed36; 12-24-2008 at 05:22 PM.

12-24-2008, 06:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
slyd0g24 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Windows xo	Re: computer shutsdown after turned on well bub. I left the old heat sink stuff on.. wasn't that much left on there but i didn't put much thought into it. Also the hard drive is still the same old one from the last mother board. I didn't format it or anything. What do you mean preparations are you talking about? btw thanks for answering me back quickly

12-24-2008, 06:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,668 OS: XP Professional	Re: computer shutsdown after turned on First off, any time you change the CPU/Heatsink or take it apart at all, you MUST clean off the old thermal paste and put new on. I suggest you do that because if you don't, they get too hot to stay on because of little air pockets between the CPU/Heatsink: Applying Artic Silver Thermal Paste Since you have put an old hard drive in a newer motherboard, it is looking for the new motherboard chipset drivers, but the ones for the old motherboard are on that drive. Therefore, you will either have to do a clean format/install, or a Repair Install of the drive. After that, you would have to load SP2 and the motherboard chipset drivers. If that is not done, they rarely work enough to change the drivers. Here are instructions for a Repair Install. Read them carefully before you decide what you want to do: Here are Repair Install instructions: __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.

12-28-2008, 05:13 PM	#5 (permalink)
slyd0g24 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Windows xo	Re: computer shutsdown after turned on alright, i changed the thermal paste stuff and i formatted my hard drive and tried running it with the xp disk and it gets to the blue screen at the beginning. It sounds like the hard drive is starting to move faster and then is shuts down still. I tried pressing tad to enter the bios and it brings me to the "press button to run from cd..." screen and i pressed del to enter set up but after a few seconds of being in the setup screen it shuts down again. .. and idea's tumbleweed? oh when i turn it on right after it shuts down it just simply turns on then off. It's like i have to wait a few seconds before i can turn it on

12-28-2008, 06:37 PM	#6 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,668 OS: XP Professional	Re: computer shutsdown after turned on Since you are doing a clean install now, do you have the bios set to boot in this order: CDRom - 1st Floppy - 2nd Hard Drive - 3rd Then, in the Hard Drive Priority (may be worded differently) area do you have the drive you are trying to install on....... is the correct drive listed FIRST. __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.

12-28-2008, 08:47 PM	#7 (permalink)
slyd0g24 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 5 OS: Windows xo	Re: computer shutsdown after turned on well sir, I tried to set up the bios and when i press tab top enter the bios the computer has trouble and reboots. It wont let me get the the bios.. I tried reinstalling xp and it keeps telling me to format my hard drive over and over again. I formatted about 6 times now. including quick format and the long format and it still will not install xp. It's almost like my hard drive is faulty. But i found out that when i don't have the side of my computer on it dont shutdown. Like it was over heating or something. My fan seems to be working fine but it might because that i have the computer under my desk on carpet. So it may be overheating or something. Any idea's ? Thanks for all the help by the way.