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Recently and for no apparent reason when shutting down from windows XP the
PC would shutdown and you would hear the drives power down e.t.c and the
power light would go out but the hard drive light would stay on permenantly
and the cpu/AGP card and chassis fans would stay on. Only by switching the
hard switch on the back could I get the whole PC to completely power off.
A strange problem but although a concern was not seroius as I could power
the PC back on as normal by pressing the power button on the front and all
would boot up and operate as normal until I once again wanted to power off
the PC and the same thing happened again.
I scoured the internet looking for similar problems and found only one
thread that matched my problem with the conclusion being to accept the PC
was working ok and not to worry about it. Being a bit of a prefectionist
when it comes to my PC I was not happy but accepted this.
Until now that is when I went to power up the PC this morning. I switched on
the hard switch at the back as normal and the HD light and fans came on as
normal but when I puched the power swith I got nothing.
Basically to cut a long story short. I have disconnected everything and
taken off all memory e.t.c to leave just the cpu,motherboard and PSU
connected and still cpu fan powers up just by putting the power cable in the
back and switching the Hard power switch on the PSU. I have even taken the
MB off it's mountings and held it away from the case and exactly the same
thing happens.
I have swapped the PSU with another that I know works. I have swapped the
CPU with another I know works and exactly the same thing.
The only conclusion I can come to is that there is some kind of short or
fault on the motherboard. Before I give in and have to replace it. Does
anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Sie
Recently and for no apparent reason when shutting down from windows XP the
PC would shutdown and you would hear the drives power down e.t.c and the
power light would go out but the hard drive light would stay on permenantly
and the cpu/AGP card and chassis fans would stay on. Only by switching the
hard switch on the back could I get the whole PC to completely power off.
A strange problem but although a concern was not seroius as I could power
the PC back on as normal by pressing the power button on the front and all
would boot up and operate as normal until I once again wanted to power off
the PC and the same thing happened again.
I scoured the internet looking for similar problems and found only one
thread that matched my problem with the conclusion being to accept the PC
was working ok and not to worry about it. Being a bit of a prefectionist
when it comes to my PC I was not happy but accepted this.
Until now that is when I went to power up the PC this morning. I switched on
the hard switch at the back as normal and the HD light and fans came on as
normal but when I puched the power swith I got nothing.
Basically to cut a long story short. I have disconnected everything and
taken off all memory e.t.c to leave just the cpu,motherboard and PSU
connected and still cpu fan powers up just by putting the power cable in the
back and switching the Hard power switch on the PSU. I have even taken the
MB off it's mountings and held it away from the case and exactly the same
thing happens.
I have swapped the PSU with another that I know works. I have swapped the
CPU with another I know works and exactly the same thing.
The only conclusion I can come to is that there is some kind of short or
fault on the motherboard. Before I give in and have to replace it. Does
anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Sie
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