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Do I have a short somewhere?

Cogman

Cogman

Lifer
Ok, so I just transported my computer from my college apartment to my home for thanksgiving break (yes, we get a long one). I plug everything in, hit the on button, and, Nothing. The fans spin, some lights turn on, but the monitor doesn't flicker to life.

I lay the computer down and look around. I can't see anything wrong with it. No wires pinched or cables unplugged. So I start it up again (still laying down) A few seconds go by and the monitor flickers on, The OS boots up. So I start to stand up the case and while doing that, the computer freezes.

I figure "Maybe it is something with the bios" so I reset the CMOS (computer laying down) start up the computer, and the monitor comes on again. This time I don't stand up the computer. I get into the OS, get firefox going, surf for a couple of minutes and then, bam, it freezes again.

Now I can't get it to start up again, laying down or otherwise. Am I correct in thinking it is probably a short somewhere? It was running fine in college so something must have been jiggled out of position.
 
I have had similar experiences after transporting a computer... In my case my power supply died. It sounds like your computer is booting, so it is at least getting through all the initial diagnostic stuff and POSTing. I would play around with your configuration and see if you can get it to boot in a minimal configuration (least amount of peripherals/cards)... and see what happens. If it is still misbehaving just double check all the connections (yeah, everyone says this, but double/triple check).

Also, could your motherboard possibly be shorting to the back of its tray/case? Have heard of that happening before...
 
If you've got a stock Intel HSF check to make sure it's still attached solidly, those pushpins are the worst. You might be making just enough contact while it's laying down to POST and keep the chip cool. I've seen 1-2 of those pins come loose after transporting a case. I always buy backplates for any Intel machines I put together, makes it so much sturdier.
 
Originally posted by: Crusty
If you've got a stock Intel HSF check to make sure it's still attached solidly, those pushpins are the worst. You might be making just enough contact while it's laying down to POST and keep the chip cool. I've seen 1-2 of those pins come loose after transporting a case. I always buy backplates for any Intel machines I put together, makes it so much sturdier.
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Its a thermalright Ultra 120, So the backplate is already there. It was transported laying on its side so there wasn't a whole lot of lateral movement.

Ill probably end up pulling out everything, dusting it (its getting a bit dusty) and re-attaching everything. Now that I think about it, I had similar problems transporting it too college, they just went away after playing with some of the wires.
 
Originally posted by: dbcooper1
Reseat your RAM, video card, and power connectors. When it doesn't boot, do you get any beeps?
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No beeps when it doesn't beep one standard "Im here" beep when it does boot.

*edit* found the problem. Seems the video card was not in all the way (some wires underneath it) as well, the power cord that goes to the vid card seemed a bit loose. Im working on my computer now (Oh its good to work on MY desktop)
 
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