My friends PC simply won't start-up, help :)

Dazzeerr · 04-25-2008, 10:54 PM

My friend was playing Warcraft 3, and his Computer just turned off for no reason.

Since then, he's tried turning it on multiple times, it turns on, fans start and everything but his monitor can't find signal (new fault too) so he's not sure where it gets to before it turns off.

He says, that when he leaves it for a while it sometimes loads to Desktop, but soon after goes blank. Then if he tries it quite often, it seems to last a shorter amount of time before it shuts down.

If you can think of anything that might be causing this, please post

Thanks, Daz.

Ambushed · 04-25-2008, 11:20 PM

Did he build the computer himself and/or do any wiring inside his computer?

I've had this problem and I found out that it was dodgy wiring shorting my computer which turned my computer off.

Can he load into BIOS to check his temperatures?

**oscaryu1** · 04-26-2008, 04:37 AM

1) Check temps
2) Post PSU specs and desktop specs

04-25-2008, 10:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dazzeerr Gold Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: England UK Posts: 268	My friends PC simply won't start-up, help :) My friend was playing Warcraft 3, and his Computer just turned off for no reason. Since then, he's tried turning it on multiple times, it turns on, fans start and everything but his monitor can't find signal (new fault too) so he's not sure where it gets to before it turns off. He says, that when he leaves it for a while it sometimes loads to Desktop, but soon after goes blank. Then if he tries it quite often, it seems to last a shorter amount of time before it shuts down. If you can think of anything that might be causing this, please post Thanks, Daz. __________________ Rig: Intel Core2Duo E4400 \| 2GB DDR2 Corsair \| 160GB & 250GB HDD \| GeForce 8500GT 256mb { soon 9800GT 512mb } \| ASUS P5S-MX SE Mobo \| X-Fi Xtreme Audio ---------- Want a game of... : CoD4 / CS 1.6 / CSS / TF2 / BF2 / WC3 / UT2k4 ? ---------- Steam iD : Bieji Msn : daztruman@hotmail.com

04-25-2008, 11:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ambushed Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 2,046	Did he build the computer himself and/or do any wiring inside his computer? I've had this problem and I found out that it was dodgy wiring shorting my computer which turned my computer off. Can he load into BIOS to check his temperatures? __________________ Core 2 Duo E6550 2.3GHz @ 3.4GHz FOXCONN MARS 2GB DDR2 800 500GB western digital SATA II XP Professional SP3 Nivida GeForce 9600GT 512MB 19" LCD widescreen 5ms www.easycomputers.co.nz McCain/Palin 08'

04-26-2008, 04:37 AM	#3 (permalink)
oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,154	1) Check temps 2) Post PSU specs and desktop specs __________________ 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

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