Me and a friend built my PC, I dont have an OS yet but the Bios came up and everything was working fine, there was a few more plugs that we didnt do yet. We took a break once we got the BIOS up.
But today i found the Power LED and where it plugs in. So i plugged it in and had the Blue light shining out of the pc. I boot it up and it works fine, but this time for some reason the computer boots off when teh Bios is done.
Then I unplugged the power led and the computer was still booting it self off, each time more quickly than the time before. The bios wont even finish loading up yet. And it boots off. Anyone know whats wrong?
[QUOTE="ProudLarry"]What kind of power supply are you using?dayaccus007
yeah, maybe the PSU is not powerfull enough
Just booting up the BIOS shouldn't require too much power that one should be concerned about how much wattage they have. I was thinking more along the lines of, he bought something cheap and the PSU is just a POS. Or even if he did buy something good it could just be that he got a faulty one, which could be the case.
It could be a motherboard problem, but I kind of doubt that since its booted to BIOS successfully at least once.
Someone said it might be something with the thermal paste on a different forum
DrTre
Exactly what power supply is it?
A cooling problem doesn't make a whole lot of sense, because again, you're only booting to the BIOS, and that requires almost no work from the CPU itself. So unless you put the heat-sink fan on completely wrong, or don't have it plugged in, I don't see your CPU overheating, and making the computer reboot.
Look at the cords that you put into your power supply...there are black tipped ones and one red tipped one...make sure they are color coordinated with the opening colors on your power supply. My friend had the same problem and that was the solution.
im just using the cords that came with my power supply. I dont see how that could be a problem.DrTre
Make sure that the Power Switch and LED cables are correctly connected, I think there should be positive and negative, which should be plugged in properly - look in the motherboard manual.
Yupp definetly defective power supply. I put Vista in and the Power supply sparked and turned off. Doesnt even turn on anymore.
Hopefully not everything got fried along with the power supply but I am definetly going to have to call the Manufacturer now.
DrTre
If you still have a problem, buy Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste, clean off the pre-applied junk on your CPU with a cotton swab, put a pea sized amount on your cpu, then spread it with a credit card.
Yupp definetly defective power supply. I put Vista in and the Power supply sparked and turned off. Doesnt even turn on anymore.
Hopefully not everything got fried along with the power supply but I am definetly going to have to call the Manufacturer now.
DrTre
Ah, that sucks. At least you know what's wrong though, and that it needs to be repaced. I've heard OCZ is pretty good about customer support. So hopefully it won't be too long before you ahve everything up and running.
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