hi my packard bell pc wont boot every time i power the pc up it gets so far and the power goes out ,i have tried a diffrent psu and i have disconnected everything exept the cpu and its still the same ,if i go into bios i have about 10 seconds before the power goes out again please help its really frustrating.
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packard bell mobo hell
- Thread starter meanman
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yes the fan is still spinning but every so often when i turn it on it will run without turning off but nothing seems to boot no screen no hdd nothing . also i did replace the thermal past with new although im not sure how good the past i used is ,i mainley use artic silver but i had none so i used vantec thermal past its white in colour could it be that thats causing it to overheat.
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when it boots the cpu fan is running quikely after a second or so there is one beep and the fan slows down then it will go to load windows and the power will go out it still happens when you go into bios, the only time the pc doesnt have the power go out is on the odd occasion when you boot it up and it doesnt beep and the screen doesnt come on the pc just seems to run with nothing happening.
i will try am i right in thinking if there was something causing a short the mobo would go out instantlly
If there is a direct short then yes it will go out instantly. But it could be a thermal short, where the expansion of a component due to heat causes a short. When it cools off the short goes away, very rare condition though. Or it could be just over heating in general, most motherboards detect when over heating occurs and will shut down the power.
What model packard are you running?