My computer starts....sometimes?

Young Nerd (real young) · 12-10-2007, 06:20 PM

Hi everyone, think I'm going to change my name as I haven't been here in a while and its YoungGeekGuy for everything else, anyways I am having a somewhat horrible problem, when I try to turn on the computer it goes on for literally half a second and turns off, then when I try to turn it back on nothing at all until I turn off my psu and turn it back on after it loses its charge or whatnot, I try again, no luck, then I turn it on its side to open it up, press the power button viola, it boots, but today it took even more tries. Someone bought me the Battle Field 2 collection yesterday for a Christmas party and before I attempted to install it one of my hard drives started to stop and start back up very rapidly, so I banged on my case

, something I usually never do unless my crappy chip set fan is grinding and I'm to lazy to open it up manually and stop it and start it until it stops. Anyways it stopped after I banged on it, so I put in battle field 2 and while starting the installer my entire computer froze, and DUh duh duh!!

BSOD, big surprise (not really, this comp is being gay lately)! OK, so it restarts, I try again and it was fine. I opened up the error report and I read the support, well it says I may have a bad component, another big surprise(or not)To conclude all this I think it may be my psu as everything works fine when it finally boots and runs without a hiccup for a while, what are your thoughts, I just spent all my money on the Z-5500's and don't have money to invest until christmas comes around, but if I must instead of a 360 I will buy what ever I need to make it work, what are your thoughts?

EDIT: OMG I thinks its happening just as I install the patch oh no!
EDIT: NVM, that was close.

imsati · 12-10-2007, 06:49 PM

Well for starters, it seems like you have multiple problems. The first being your PSU, and from the sound of it, a Hard Drive also.

The way you have to turn your system on seems like it could be a faulty PSU. Do you have a spare one to test?

Could you describe in more detail what your Hard Drive is doing? Dos it 'surge', meaning spin really fast, then slow, then fast again? Does it make any clicking noises?

I really wouldn't bang the case for any reason either, BTW.

It's fairly simple to open it up and see what's making the noise rather than take a few shots and hope it stops.

Young Nerd (real young) · 12-10-2007, 07:25 PM

Well, I think the hard drive is fine now, I sounded like when I turn off the computer, it makes a weird electronic sound(always has,its normal) then it spins up again, its been fine now, I haven't turned it off for a while and have been playing battle field 2 everything on max! Unfortunately, I do not have a spare psu as I have the best machine in the house and have used the same psu for around 3 years now, I might be able to borrow a friends, I built him a pc a bit ago, its a crappy raidmax one that came with the case, but its enough to try with. Thanks for the advice. Also after it starts I can turn the computer vertical again and it keeps running fine, oh well looks like I don't get 360, might buy a new mobo and cpu with the left over money though.

oscaryu1 · 12-10-2007, 11:13 PM

Scan it with some diagnostic software to be on the extra safe side...

Young Nerd (real young) · 12-11-2007, 08:07 PM

I will as soon as I'm ungrounded, started fine today, just needed to use my mac quickly to check an order and reply to this.

12-10-2007, 06:20 PM	#1 (permalink)
Young Nerd (real young) Bronze Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 33	My computer starts....sometimes? Hi everyone, think I'm going to change my name as I haven't been here in a while and its YoungGeekGuy for everything else, anyways I am having a somewhat horrible problem, when I try to turn on the computer it goes on for literally half a second and turns off, then when I try to turn it back on nothing at all until I turn off my psu and turn it back on after it loses its charge or whatnot, I try again, no luck, then I turn it on its side to open it up, press the power button viola, it boots, but today it took even more tries. Someone bought me the Battle Field 2 collection yesterday for a Christmas party and before I attempted to install it one of my hard drives started to stop and start back up very rapidly, so I banged on my case, something I usually never do unless my crappy chip set fan is grinding and I'm to lazy to open it up manually and stop it and start it until it stops. Anyways it stopped after I banged on it, so I put in battle field 2 and while starting the installer my entire computer froze, and DUh duh duh!! BSOD, big surprise (not really, this comp is being gay lately)! OK, so it restarts, I try again and it was fine. I opened up the error report and I read the support, well it says I may have a bad component, another big surprise(or not)To conclude all this I think it may be my psu as everything works fine when it finally boots and runs without a hiccup for a while, what are your thoughts, I just spent all my money on the Z-5500's and don't have money to invest until christmas comes around, but if I must instead of a 360 I will buy what ever I need to make it work, what are your thoughts? EDIT: OMG I thinks its happening just as I install the patch oh no! EDIT: NVM, that was close. __________________ Mobo: EPoX 8NPA SLI CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700 for socket 754 @ 2.4GHz on Zalman CNPS 9700LED Memory: Kingston DDR 400 512mb, Samsung DDR 400 1Gb Video card: EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO Superclocked, bois oc'ed to 650/1600 PSU: Nikao 520Watt power Supply OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Hard drive: SATA WD 80Gb Caviar, Seagate 120Gb IDE Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtream Music Last edited by Young Nerd (real young); 12-10-2007 at 06:30 PM. Reason: more infor

12-10-2007, 06:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
imsati Diamond Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: EHT, NJ Posts: 2,474	Well for starters, it seems like you have multiple problems. The first being your PSU, and from the sound of it, a Hard Drive also. The way you have to turn your system on seems like it could be a faulty PSU. Do you have a spare one to test? Could you describe in more detail what your Hard Drive is doing? Dos it 'surge', meaning spin really fast, then slow, then fast again? Does it make any clicking noises? I really wouldn't bang the case for any reason either, BTW. It's fairly simple to open it up and see what's making the noise rather than take a few shots and hope it stops. __________________ --Jay Gigabyte EP31-DS3L \| E4500 \| Masscool HSF paired with AS-5 80 GB SATA2 x 2 \| e-GeForce 7100 GS \| CM Elite 330 (gorgeous!) Triple Boot: Ubuntu 7.10/XP Home/Kubuntu 7.10 Also, I can kill you with my brain. The Great Forum Challenge http://www.computerforum.com/114761-...tml#post922619 (And you follow his advice why, exactly...?) (Funny Thread though!)

12-10-2007, 07:25 PM	#3 (permalink)
Young Nerd (real young) Bronze Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 33	Well, I think the hard drive is fine now, I sounded like when I turn off the computer, it makes a weird electronic sound(always has,its normal) then it spins up again, its been fine now, I haven't turned it off for a while and have been playing battle field 2 everything on max! Unfortunately, I do not have a spare psu as I have the best machine in the house and have used the same psu for around 3 years now, I might be able to borrow a friends, I built him a pc a bit ago, its a crappy raidmax one that came with the case, but its enough to try with. Thanks for the advice. Also after it starts I can turn the computer vertical again and it keeps running fine, oh well looks like I don't get 360, might buy a new mobo and cpu with the left over money though. __________________ Mobo: EPoX 8NPA SLI CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700 for socket 754 @ 2.4GHz on Zalman CNPS 9700LED Memory: Kingston DDR 400 512mb, Samsung DDR 400 1Gb Video card: EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO Superclocked, bois oc'ed to 650/1600 PSU: Nikao 520Watt power Supply OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Hard drive: SATA WD 80Gb Caviar, Seagate 120Gb IDE Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtream Music

12-10-2007, 11:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 9,836	Scan it with some diagnostic software to be on the extra safe side... __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

12-11-2007, 08:07 PM	#5 (permalink)
Young Nerd (real young) Bronze Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 33	I will as soon as I'm ungrounded, started fine today, just needed to use my mac quickly to check an order and reply to this. __________________ Mobo: EPoX 8NPA SLI CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700 for socket 754 @ 2.4GHz on Zalman CNPS 9700LED Memory: Kingston DDR 400 512mb, Samsung DDR 400 1Gb Video card: EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO Superclocked, bois oc'ed to 650/1600 PSU: Nikao 520Watt power Supply OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Hard drive: SATA WD 80Gb Caviar, Seagate 120Gb IDE Sound: Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtream Music

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