Press Power Button, no LED... but

[companycmd]

Computer power can be heard to boot drives, nothing is on screen (it's blank), power LED never comes on and nothing happens.

Wait a few minutes

Use pen to depress Reset popple.

Power LED comes on and computer re-boots and screen shows the makings of a startup data but then hangs before going to memory test.

Depress Reset again, computer starts normally and goes into windows.

WTH?!

 

[wahnula]

Next time it boots BACK UP and verify you have everything you need, you may not get another chance. You need to be way more specific about hardware and OS...

First I would flash the BIOS
Second check for new chipset drivers

Not knowing more about the PC it is hard to hazard a guess.

Tony

 

[gbaughma]

It sounds to me like a dodgy power supply; it's probably not supplying the "power good" signal to the motherboard.



Just my 2¢

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[Johnthephoneguy]

What motherboard and what version bios on it?

JohnThePhoneGuy

"If I can't fix it, it's not broke!

 

[stduc]

My guess is it's a laptop on its deathbed. I certainly wouldn't flash the BIOS - as a first step! I would follow the advice of [navy]wahnula[/navy] and get it fully backed up.

Then I would suspect a loose component/cable or PSU or the CPU is creeping out of its socket.

If not a laptop - I would start by re-seating all cards, RAM etc and probably give it a good clean. If that didn't work I would check the PSU with a power tester - or if I didn't have one - just replace it. Last maybe I would re-seat the CPU. It would depend what I found on the way.

If it's a laptop and a few years old I would bin it. They are way too hard to get into and way to expensive to take for repair. One thought occurs thought, if it is a laptop, it could be the battery is going bad. Try a different battery, or try powering up on the mains with no battery in.

 

[companycmd]

Ok so here's the truth; it's a desktop Systemax Asccent AMD 751.

Get it?

But B4 you go OOOWHH man its a bogus compy the fact is it AINT. IT's fine; this is just the latest in the gotchas of having a compy that's "old" with components bought in the last 4 months.

Ya it's on it's deathbed no doubt but it's only a 3 month old Power supply.

I see a new mobo with processor on Tigerdirect for $100 and will probably swap out the mobo; it's been a good ride but this compy's got issues with this power up being the latest.

Thanks all.

 

[wahnula]

But B4 you go OOOWHH man its a bogus compy the fact is it AINT.

Nobody in this forum passes judgment on another member's hardware...we have folks here running PentiumPros so it's all good...

Ya it's on it's deathbed no doubt but it's only a 3 month old Power supply

companycmd,

Age is not necessarily the issue, more likely the quality. Fact is a new build won't work with a bad PSU, we had a member posting here he received two brand-new back-to-back Antec PSUs, both bad out of the box. PSU testers are cheap and may stave off unneeded purchases.

If you do go with a new mainboard/CPU the Core 2 Duo is taking names right now and I've seen bundles w/ E6300s around $150.

Tony