Woke up this morning and my PC was shut down. It won't boot, the lights and fan come on for 1s and turn off. If I hold in the power button the lights flash and the fan spins.
Any ideas what is wrong? Is the power supply dying maybe?
Woke up this morning and my PC was shut down. It won't boot, the lights and fan come on for 1s and turn off. If I hold in the power button the lights flash and the fan spins.
Any ideas what is wrong? Is the power supply dying maybe?
This is a pc I built myself a couple years ago.
Could be the power supply. You can check if you have a spare. Also, sounds dumb, but plug your surge protector (you better have a surge protector) into a different socket. One time I thought my power supply died and it was just that the outlet shorted out in a power surge.
Woke up this morning and my PC was shut down. It won't boot, the lights and fan come on for 1s and turn off. If I hold in the power button the lights flash and the fan spins.
Any ideas what is wrong? Is the power supply dying maybe?
This is a pc I built myself a couple years ago.
What type of video card do you have?
If you have an Nvidia, it might have died, try removing the card and booting using onboard graphics. If it boots then, it was your video card.
I do have an Nvidia card. I've tried booting with it removed and have gotten the same results, though I do not have onboard video card so I didn't have any monitors hooked up.
I just took everything apart and put it back together and still have the same issue.
This might be the isue I don't know but in the process I found a small shred of paper that was laying on the video card board.
"If I hold in the power button the lights flash and the fan spins."
Wait what? so if you just keep holding in the button what happens? Do the fans keep spinning and the lights stay on?
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edited March 2010
Your motherboard is toast. Anything else and your BIOS would be reporting problems.
Slim chance it's your PSU but usually when they die you get zero action out of them.
your motherboard may still be fine. this happened to me a few months ago. I forgot what I did to fix it. I'll be wracking my brain all night until I can remember.
I had this problem when I first set up my system, when the processor wasn't seated properly, I didn't get any post beeps I just got spin up, spin down.
I have tried each one of my ram sticks to see if they were the problem and they all get me the same results. I've also now tried a different power supply and I still have the problem.
I will try to reseat my cpu though before I order a new mobo.
And to clarify if I hold in the power button all of the lights flash and the fans spin (through momentum I imagine, since they are probably powering on and off like the lights).
When I built my first computer many moon ago I had bought an after market CPU heatsink and one of the screws that held it on was touching the case. And that caused the problem you described. But it's doubtful that's the cause.
When the same problem you're having happened to me I ended up taking every thing (except psu) out and reinstalling them all in an attempt to isolate a problem. After I was down to the just the mobo left it still didn't work. took it out to inspect it. didn't see anything. reinstalled it. everything started to work again. So, not sure what caused my strife that day. But no problems up to today.
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Could be the power supply. You can check if you have a spare. Also, sounds dumb, but plug your surge protector (you better have a surge protector) into a different socket. One time I thought my power supply died and it was just that the outlet shorted out in a power surge.
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What type of video card do you have?
If you have an Nvidia, it might have died, try removing the card and booting using onboard graphics. If it boots then, it was your video card.
I just took everything apart and put it back together and still have the same issue.
This might be the isue I don't know but in the process I found a small shred of paper that was laying on the video card board.
I assume that is a bad thing.
But it loses its thread
Might be MOBO death.
But it loses its thread
Wait what? so if you just keep holding in the button what happens? Do the fans keep spinning and the lights stay on?
Slim chance it's your PSU but usually when they die you get zero action out of them.
I did this once where I would turn it on, lights and fans would turn on but nothing would happen
turned out the ram wasn't seated properly
I will try to reseat my cpu though before I order a new mobo.
When the same problem you're having happened to me I ended up taking every thing (except psu) out and reinstalling them all in an attempt to isolate a problem. After I was down to the just the mobo left it still didn't work. took it out to inspect it. didn't see anything. reinstalled it. everything started to work again. So, not sure what caused my strife that day. But no problems up to today.