Hello everyone. Yes I do have a hum-dinger of a problem here, so let me start from the beginning. Okay, so I'm running WinXP ( yeah I know, old but reliable) and I was trying to access an older game I wanted to play again. ( It was a FF2P online game, go figure) I try to open it, then I start hearing my computer running itself extra hard, then suddenly poof, it turns off completely (not resetting, completely off) ...then tries to start back up again on it's own. I quickly turn the thing off, switch on the dead switch (older power core, 650W), unplug it, then wait a few minutes before opening up the case to check to see if everything was okay inside (looking for scorch marks mostly). Not finding anything out of the ordinary, I put the case back on, put the power back in and switch off the dead switch, then try to turn it back on. It starts normal ... so I decide to try that game one more time ...same thing happens ( yeah i know, stupid me). This time I just leave it off for a few moments instead of looking inside. But then, when I turn on, it tries to turn on ...but then shuts completely off ....then tried to turn on again, but fizzled and turned off ...for good. I check all the wiring inside the computer, and for some reason the motherboard wasn't receiving any power. So I thought the power core died. So later in the week I went out and got another power core (900W Rocketfish - Rocketfish ). I tried it out and ...well it didn't do much good. Now, it just turns on for a seconds, turns completely off ..then starts back up and does nothing ... I tried switching out the vid card ( EVGA Geforce GTX 260 Newegg.com - EVGA 896-P3-1257-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card ) for slightly older models ( EVGA NX6600GT http://www.newegg.com/product/produ...TD128E+Geforce+6600GT+128MB+GDDR3+PCI+Express , EVGA 8400GS Newegg.com - EVGA 512-P2-N738-LR GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready Video Card ) I had stashed, even tried replacing the ram9 from 2 2g kingston ram card to 2 1g ram cards ), unplugged all the plugs carefully inside the computer (just the power ones) then replugging them in, but to no avail. I't just keeps doing the same thing. I'm at a loss as to what it can be, at this point though I'm eying the processor, but I'm completely unsure. I need some help here if anyone can help me! Please and thank you all.
Sounds like your PSU was the issue at first, generally when they are overheating, under to much load they will power off and restart. So you've solved one problem. But your issue is with the machine not posting. By any chance does your motherboard have an Intel chipset? these motherboards generally power on and off when updating bios settings. so you could have a corrupt bios, try resetting cmos and power on the machine again. when resetting cmos unplug the kettle lead from the PSU, short the clear cmos pins with the jumper or flick out the motherboard battery for 30 secs, totally killing the power to the board and then start the machine up. see if you get a successful post.
Well, now I get the boot up screen, but now I get a blue screen error, maybe because its booting from the wrong hard drive ... - Scratch that, tried booting from all three drives and still get the blue screen on start up.
