Hi
Some days ago I couldn't start my computer. When I pressed the power button nothing happened. So I disconnected everything, opened the case and checked each connection. After a few tries, I could power it up. It ran for half a minute before I shut down again because neither my keybord nor monitor were attached.
I reassembled the case and connected everything. Once again it would not start.
So I opened it again and checked everything. I suspected that it might just be a PSU problem although the LED on my motherboard was on. Despite going through the same steps as before it would not start. Then I removed the motherboard battery, waited for 10 minutes, reinserted it. Still no joy. I also manually shorted the power on pin, but it did not help either.
Today I bought a new PSU and installed it. After reconnecting monitor, mouse and keyboard I turned it on and it worked. My screen displayed a BIOS error message that's probably due to the battery I removed and reinserted.
To my dismay the computer shut down after 30 seconds and restarted. After 5-10 seconds it restarted again and so on until I pulled the plug.
I can see that all cabinet fans and the CPU fan is running during startup, but my graphics card fan is not.
Although I don't find it likely that both my PSU and graphics card would give up at the same time, I suspect that the graphics card might have a fan failure, and that my computer now automatically shuts off when the GPU reaches a critical temperature. Does that sound likely?
Any ideas or input are very welcome.
SYSTEM INFO
Home built
Core 2 Duo E6600
4 MB DDR2 RAM
Geforce 8800 GT card
Asus P5K Motherboard
Thanks,
Slush69
Some days ago I couldn't start my computer. When I pressed the power button nothing happened. So I disconnected everything, opened the case and checked each connection. After a few tries, I could power it up. It ran for half a minute before I shut down again because neither my keybord nor monitor were attached.
I reassembled the case and connected everything. Once again it would not start.
So I opened it again and checked everything. I suspected that it might just be a PSU problem although the LED on my motherboard was on. Despite going through the same steps as before it would not start. Then I removed the motherboard battery, waited for 10 minutes, reinserted it. Still no joy. I also manually shorted the power on pin, but it did not help either.
Today I bought a new PSU and installed it. After reconnecting monitor, mouse and keyboard I turned it on and it worked. My screen displayed a BIOS error message that's probably due to the battery I removed and reinserted.
To my dismay the computer shut down after 30 seconds and restarted. After 5-10 seconds it restarted again and so on until I pulled the plug.
I can see that all cabinet fans and the CPU fan is running during startup, but my graphics card fan is not.
Although I don't find it likely that both my PSU and graphics card would give up at the same time, I suspect that the graphics card might have a fan failure, and that my computer now automatically shuts off when the GPU reaches a critical temperature. Does that sound likely?
Any ideas or input are very welcome.
SYSTEM INFO
Home built
Core 2 Duo E6600
4 MB DDR2 RAM
Geforce 8800 GT card
Asus P5K Motherboard
Thanks,
Slush69