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[blade1611a]

Hey I have a friend whose computer just went like big time dead. When you hit the power button the fans and everything comes on but 5 sec. later everything dies. Then 2 sec. later it tries again without me hitting anything and then dies again 2 sec. later. I have tried a different power supply and power switch but nothing helps. Also when I take the memory out, it still does the same thing. I thought the MB was supposed to make a tone and crash if no memory was found. I'm pretty sure the Mother Board is fried but I was wanting some other opinions.

Thanks for the help

Blade[ky]

p.s. we built his rig from scratch about a year and a half ago

 

[.^Black.Label^.]

Ya it sounds like your motherboard. Do you hear a beep or anything when you try to start it with memory in?

 

[Legit^]

it might just be the processor

 

[Munkypoo7]

Make sure the heatsink is properly applied, this happened to me once on my rig, didnt push 3 pins fully and it would just restart randomly (within 5 seconds each time)

 

[Techdre]

Mobo and or CPU. But if I have to pick one I would lean towarrds a bad mobo

 

[blade1611a]

Ya it sounds like your motherboard. Do you hear a beep or anything when you try to start it with memory in?

Nope. no sound at all. just comes on and then dies.

 

[Panzers]

its probably the CPU fan. it overheats and everything crashes. i recommend not turning it on until you fix it because...well lets not find out what will happen

 

[Havegooda {A|R}]

Stupid question, but is everything plugged in? CPU power, mobo headers, etc.

~Gooda~

 

[DarkosCY]

my first thots were "fried RAM chips" but it isn't that, my next guess would be a fried motherboard, if it were the fan it wouldn't even turn on!

 

[.^Black.Label^.]

Nope. no sound at all. just comes on and then dies.

ok since ive had 5 mobo's take a crap on me i would say that there is a 97% chance that its the motherboard. Every motherboard that i have had or have seen does make a beep..... thats how i usually tell when a motherboard is fried. I could be wrong, but im almost positive that thats whats wrong.

If it was a heatsink problem on the CPU ( AMD ) the computer would start normally and run for about 1 to 5 min before shut off, or if you have the lovely intell it would just sizzle, fart and then blow up!!

Well i hope that helped a lil bit lol

 

[Existence.]

Literally the exact same thing happened to me. However, if I took out the harddrive, the computer booted up just fine. (But without a harddrive). Figured out it got fried, so I sent it in for warranty, and now its all good.