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Grunt03

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Hello everyone.

It's been awhile since I have visited the forums, I have just returned from a deployment in Iraq and man it's so good being home.

I have encountered a problem with my main PC. I have a tower computer and it was working fine prior to leaving on deployment, while I was away my wife and children used the computer. I tried to turn the power on and the computer started for about thirty seconds then shut down. It continued to do this even after I started trouble shooting everything. I have disconnected all additional items and still the problem exist. I thought that it could be a power issue so I replaced the power source and still no luck, the computer will not turn on.
I have checked all of the connections, disconnected and reconnected everything, no help.

I would like to avoid replaceing everything and need help.

COOL MASTER FULL TOWER
MSI K8T Neo2 motherboard
3 GB ram
1 sata HD (180GB)
2 IDE/ HD ( 250GB each)
Radeon X850 PRO 256MB (AGP)
 
Have you ever held in the power button in on a pc and watched it turn itself off?
This may be whats happening to you, your power button may be faulty.

Look up a manual for the pc's motherboard, and find the two pins that the power switch is connected to, then remove the wire that comes from the power switch onto those two pins to expose the pins on the mobo.

Then short the two pins together with a screwdriver and see if your pc starts.
Dont hold the screwdriver on the pins or the pc will start and then shut back down like its doing now.
Just touch the two header pins together long enough for the pc to start then remove the scredriver.

If it works by shorting the motherboard power header pins together, then you know its the switch on the pc thats faulty. (its not releasing when pushed)
 
Originally posted by: MTDEW
Have you ever held in the power button in on a pc and watched it turn itself off?
This may be whats happening to you, your power button may be faulty.

Look up a manual for the pc's motherboard, and find the two pins that the power switch is connected to, then remove the wire that comes from the power switch onto those two pins to expose the pins on the mobo.

Then short the two pins together with a screwdriver and see if your pc starts.
Dont hold the screwdriver on the pins or the pc will start and then shut back down like its doing now.
Just touch the two header pins together long enough for the pc to start then remove the scredriver.

If it works by shorting the motherboard power header pins together, then you know its the switch on the pc thats faulty. (its not releasing when pushed)
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Alternatively you can pull the Power Switch connection from the MB and use the Reset Switch/connector in it's place.

Good thought MTDEW :thumbsup:
 
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