ok soi get a pc off my brother who says it keeps switchin itself off after a short while, so i check the processor - same as mine, so we take the cpu out of mine in an even to try an eliminate the problem wether it be cpu or motherboard, alls going well, refited switch on , all my com does it spins up for approx 3 secs then switches back off i think , cpu funked

swapped my cpu back in , go and restart , exactly the same, so is the fault that that processor is fooking motherboards ?
is this possible ??

i think my board must now be fooked and i only bought it about 9 month ago


had to resort to the fookin laptop


any help please ???


mark

 

What kind of processor is it? Athlon?

 

yeh amd athlon xp2000 - somat like 1.6ghz ???

FOOKED

 

try resetting the CMOS with the jumper, then reboot

 

faulty motherboard mate.

do u usually reset the CMOS when the pc is powered up then?

 

nope, when it's off

 

Before you do that, you might want to check that the fan is making good contact with the CPU. Scrape the heatsink compound off the base of the fan and put a new heatsink pad on with some heatsink paste....
Worth a try....the contact area on an Athlon CPU is very small and I've seen similar things before

 

cleared cmos - no difference - so its fooked the board, so the processor and theboard must be fooked now , as before i fitted this cpu the computer worked fine

 

dont let anyone tell ya meddling is not an art form !!

 

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the problem with the non start was core temp over heat !!!! top geezer


but now it will only start to bios, finds hard drives and all floppys , but wont go to xp operating systems,

just keeps giving options for safe mode, last known good setting , start normally etc etc

and a count down, non of these options do anything, the comp just freezes once the timer stops

more help ???


cheers dudes

 

What drive is it trying to boot up on first ?

 

that isnt the bios, thats the operating system of the hard drive tring to find something to boot from

u need a reinstall tbh mate

u far?

 

it was trying to boot the hard drive 1st but ive changed it to disc to try and repair the problem , i think its struggling to find th o/s ???

 

Well if u playin about with boot priorities, then it will cause problems.

 

ive only tried changing boot sequence to try and sort this lack of booting problem, it wont even boot from cd ,

ive had enough now for tonight m], fookin ell i only took a fookin processor out , its notlike ive never done it before

cheers guys

 

my PCs being running real crap and doing same kinda thing but mine has been lasting 5 hours or so.
ive taken the case off and its better.

ive still got quite high CPU temps on average now 50ish i think and PC is noisey.


have i got similar problems? as mine is xp2400 amd thingy similar

 

this sounds very much like the main pc powersupply - i had one do the same - ended up buying a new 10 quid power supply for the case from microdirect and all was fine - it would be ok until it tryed to do any work and loaded up the powersupply , so on first startup , it could reboot say 15-20 times if u left it to it before it finally got into windows, then u would launch something that made the cpu work for a few seconds and "click" reboot again.

 

i'll second the psu theory. Also seen it myself a few times

 

should actually run WORSE like that unless youve got your PC crammed in the corner where it cant get any good airflow. as with the case on you have good airflow inside the case... take it off and theres no airflow... the case fans then become useless and you're relying 100% on the CPU fan...

 

I'm presuming the fan on the PSU's still working... try swapping the ram out.

 

Me Third it too, cos ive had a couple do it.
One i had started kicking out 2 much juice, and fooking the new boards i was connecting up, it was woudl start for a few secs then shut off.