Power up problem...

skinford · 03-20-2008, 10:51 AM

Hi all im new to this site as i have just started studying for MCDST. Recently iv been trying to sort out a few machines an keep running into silly little problems so hope this site and its members can help me..

Have a machine here that needed cleaned out as it was running very slow and the usual stuff. it would turn itself off within a minute of starting up, sometimes longer 10-15mins.

When i got it running long enuf i removed the current anti-virus software, I ran spybot and installed McAfee on it then scanned it. had the machine going well but it still turned itself off.
Now when i switch it on it powers down within seconds. I replaced the power supply with a new one last nite and it still wont start up.

There is no way of accessing the bios so i reckon its a hardware fault of some sort. Can anyone shed any light on this issue i have?

Thanks

dai · 03-20-2008, 11:14 AM

check it's clear of dust
redo the paste on the cpu with some arctic silver
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_s...structions.htm
check the psu is large enough to run it
Power Supply Information and Selection

03-20-2008, 10:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
skinford Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 2 OS: WinXP SP2 My System	Power up problem... Hi all im new to this site as i have just started studying for MCDST. Recently iv been trying to sort out a few machines an keep running into silly little problems so hope this site and its members can help me.. Have a machine here that needed cleaned out as it was running very slow and the usual stuff. it would turn itself off within a minute of starting up, sometimes longer 10-15mins. When i got it running long enuf i removed the current anti-virus software, I ran spybot and installed McAfee on it then scanned it. had the machine going well but it still turned itself off. Now when i switch it on it powers down within seconds. I replaced the power supply with a new one last nite and it still wont start up. There is no way of accessing the bios so i reckon its a hardware fault of some sort. Can anyone shed any light on this issue i have? Thanks

03-20-2008, 11:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,539 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Power up problem... check it's clear of dust redo the paste on the cpu with some arctic silver http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_s...structions.htm check the psu is large enough to run it Power Supply Information and Selection __________________