Amidst pricing out a server for myself, my co-worker gave me his old desktop that he had sitting in his basement. He stopped using it because he said it was not working.
Once the power button is pressed, the pc would start up, then shutdown, start up then shutdown, over and over until you closed off the power to the PSU.
So I took out old hard drive, put in an old 300gb WD, booted up the bios fine, installed windows and everything was working great. Great as an ASUS P5E3 and Core 2 Quad Q9650 LGA 775, could run. Installed windows, did all updates, installed some monitoring software (CPUID). Everything seemed fine. Temps were good. Fans working.
However I tried to start up the machine again after work today to play around with it some more and it is running the same sequence that my co-worker had. Shutdown, startup, shutdown and startup. Can't do anything to it. Any ideas what could be causing the problem?
Thanks!
Once the power button is pressed, the pc would start up, then shutdown, start up then shutdown, over and over until you closed off the power to the PSU.
So I took out old hard drive, put in an old 300gb WD, booted up the bios fine, installed windows and everything was working great. Great as an ASUS P5E3 and Core 2 Quad Q9650 LGA 775, could run. Installed windows, did all updates, installed some monitoring software (CPUID). Everything seemed fine. Temps were good. Fans working.
However I tried to start up the machine again after work today to play around with it some more and it is running the same sequence that my co-worker had. Shutdown, startup, shutdown and startup. Can't do anything to it. Any ideas what could be causing the problem?
Thanks!