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Did the removalists break my cabinet or was it me?
rabidpuppy:
Hiho,
So I built a cabinet in 2009, all good, pictures and specifics at end of this. Now over the last year hasn't had any use, and I moved house at the start of December just gone. It was a rush, and I didn't think to turn it on to check it was working 100% before it got moved. The move went fine, and I have only just finished unpacking and got rid of the stuff stacked in front of the cabinet, and thought to try it.
It powered on, and got the pc bios screen, the buttons that have leds all came on, but then it shutdown, and restarted itself. This repeated itself and just kept doing it. I guess that's the issue here. I tried plugging it into a standard powerboard, a different wall outlet, and also tried a different PSU (just swapped out the motherboard power, didn't go the the length of plugging in all the hard drives, fans, lights etc). Same thing. Powers up, shutsdown and restarts.
Since I isolated it down to just the motherboard being powered, I'm guessing faulty motherboard/cpu/ram. But, I built this 4 years ago. Didn't make extensive notes for myself. I would literally rather but a new motherboard & cpu and & ram than try and troubleshoot what I built. I figure a new cheap m/b etc would be more powerful than the 4 year old one anyway. (True? Please be true).
This is what's inside (according to the invoice I kept, cos I really don't remember these details)
CPU: Intel Core2-Duo E8400 3.0GHZ 1333FSB 6MB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3R P45 4xD3
Ram: Corsair 2x1GB 1333Mhz C9 Twinx DDR3
Video: 512MB Gigabyte 4670 D3 R467D3
PSU: (Not 100%, but as pictured) Coolmaster Centurion V 460W
PC plugged into a smart strip powerboard. Have 2 120mm fans, and some lighting, but I'm hoping someone either can confirm my motherboard suspicions, or perhaps one of the pictures will be a pointer of what I could check. It sounds stupid but after 4 years it's like I'm not looking at something I put together. Perhaps the removalists knocked something out of place, or maybe it was like this before they touched it.
Yes, I do feel like a dick for being so stupid / careless / negligent / forgetful.
http://imageshack.us/g/1/9977105/
ark_ader:
just unplug everything, remove the memory and the heatsink/processor (good time to apply new paste) and reseat everything in and you should be good to go. I had this same problem on transAtlantic shipmements and found that the PC connections just shifted.
jammin0:
I second the above suggestion. If ram or CPU came loose it could be doing this. Also sometimes heat sinks come loose and then it will power for a few seconds, get too hot, thermal protection kicks in and restarts.
BobA:
Try booting with everything unplugged except 1 ram stick. Then try it again with the other ram stick. I just had a single ram stick go bad and it kept the computer from booting up.
lilshawn:
wait wait wait wait WAIT!
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Have you not even opened up the computer to see if maybe the heat sink has gotten knocked off?! sounds to me like the motherboard may be expecting a tach signal from the fan, and not getting it, is shutting down. (had this happen before, got a wire jammed in the cpu cooler)
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