Troubleshooting: System shuts down after a few seconds
Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:12 am
Hey guys,
didn't know where to put this since there is no forum dedicated to troubleshooting, but I direly need some help. Since I suspect the CPU or the mainboard could be the culprit, this forum is as good as any.
So I got myself a new system to put into my PC60 Lian Li case. E6300, Gigabyte P965-S3, 2x 1GB RAM, an X1900 GT and a Seasonic S12-430. I put it all together, and it worked fine - for a couple of seconds, then it shuts down. From what I can tell in those brief moments, everything is detected fine, from the CPU to the memory, even the HD when I've got it connected. But then, zap, it's all gone.
As it stands, all that is connected is the mainboard obviously, the CPU, 1 GB RAM and the graphics card, ie the bare minimum required for the system to even start.
My first suspect was the PSU, after all the problem seems to be related to power. So I connected my old one, a sort of Seasonic OEM, too low in spec to run the system in earnest (300W I think), but enough to give it a try. It has all the connectors except for the PCI-E one, but the card contained an adapter. Anyway, the same problem occurs, unfortunately, so I guess it's not the PSU.
That's where I'm at now. The components left are the graphics card, the mainboard and the CPU. I kind of doubt it's the CPU, I would guess with the CPU it's either go or no go. So the mainboard or the graphics card? Unfortunately I don't have any replacements of either to test it, although I can probably get my hand on a PCI graphics card, but not before the weekend.
Before I forget, another thing I did was reset the CMOS, didn't do me any good.
You can imagine I'm really frustrated right now, we've all been there before. Any recommendations would be welcome.
didn't know where to put this since there is no forum dedicated to troubleshooting, but I direly need some help. Since I suspect the CPU or the mainboard could be the culprit, this forum is as good as any.
So I got myself a new system to put into my PC60 Lian Li case. E6300, Gigabyte P965-S3, 2x 1GB RAM, an X1900 GT and a Seasonic S12-430. I put it all together, and it worked fine - for a couple of seconds, then it shuts down. From what I can tell in those brief moments, everything is detected fine, from the CPU to the memory, even the HD when I've got it connected. But then, zap, it's all gone.
As it stands, all that is connected is the mainboard obviously, the CPU, 1 GB RAM and the graphics card, ie the bare minimum required for the system to even start.
My first suspect was the PSU, after all the problem seems to be related to power. So I connected my old one, a sort of Seasonic OEM, too low in spec to run the system in earnest (300W I think), but enough to give it a try. It has all the connectors except for the PCI-E one, but the card contained an adapter. Anyway, the same problem occurs, unfortunately, so I guess it's not the PSU.
That's where I'm at now. The components left are the graphics card, the mainboard and the CPU. I kind of doubt it's the CPU, I would guess with the CPU it's either go or no go. So the mainboard or the graphics card? Unfortunately I don't have any replacements of either to test it, although I can probably get my hand on a PCI graphics card, but not before the weekend.
Before I forget, another thing I did was reset the CMOS, didn't do me any good.
You can imagine I'm really frustrated right now, we've all been there before. Any recommendations would be welcome.