[blkandred]

this prob sounds a lot like waxoe's with a few changes when i try to start system lights on tower flash and screen flashes with first screen but just keeps flashing as though system has hiccups and starts over ever time also there is a clicking noise in tower already check power supply it is fine and also checked mother board and it is fine everything seems to be seated and connected correctly any other ideas?

 

[SPEEDO]

Welcome to Tech Support Forums blkandred.................

Try clearing the cmos. Of course you will need to reset everything afterwards.

 

[blkandred]

okay, here is the problem I am having in a nut shell.

My power is flickering on and off on my computer like someone is playing with the power switch. I can not do any thing to it that requires the power to be turned on. When I get lucky enough for the power to stay on it is only on for a split second. I can't even get my computer to stay on long enough to get into the bios.

I have checked the power supply, mother board and processor for anything visibly wrong, and checked all my connections. It checks out.

I am running a 1.2 gig AMD Athlon processor on an Amptron mother board with 256 megs of ram and a 40 gig hard drive.

I am at a loss for what is causing my problems. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[DJ Specs]

It must be a faulty power supply....
Is ther anything that you can do that makes it worse?

 

[blkandred]

thank you

thank you much will have it checked again

 

[DJ Specs]

Actually, have you done a piece by piece build and check?
Starting with just the power supply, testing it, then adding another part, testing it etc.. You should find the link that is causing the problem. Whats the wattage of the power supply? It could be underpowered as well.

 

[blkandred]

boot prob

power supply is 300 watts and have tried to power up with only mother boad connected

 

[SPEEDO]

tried to power up with only mother boad connected

Did you have a video card installed when you did this?

Have you tried swapping the video card?

 

[blkandred]

Thank you to everyone who tried to help. Looks like it is a problem with the mother board after all.