Hi,
I have recently been experiencing a severe problem with my PC. The PC is about 6 months old now and I built the system myself. The system specs are as follows:
*ASUS M2N32 WS Professional Motherboard
*AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Dual Core CPU
*Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
*Corsair XMS2 Dominator 2GB Matched Pair
*Tagan TG600-U35 Easycon XL 600W PSU
*XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU
*120GB Seagate Barracuda HDD
*ASUS Dual Layer Lightscribe DVD-RW
*Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case
Initially the problem was that it was freezing after POST. Occasionally I was able to get in to Windows XP SP2 but after about five seconds it would freeze.
Recently the problem has become more severe. The PC now behaves very strangely. Upon switching the system on it will switch itself off almost immediately, perhaps within a second or two. There is no smell of electrical burning and I have thoroughly cleaned the inside of the case, including all fans. Every fan within the system except for the GPU fan is spinning. The PSU fan is also spinning. I have two internal case fans which are on their highest setting and both the case, motherboard and CPU temperatures are running below normal as at one point early in the problem I was able to enter the BIOS and review the temperatures.
I have run the system in several configurations. No HDD, no DVD, no memory, 1 stick of RAM, both sticks, no GPU and nothing except the CPU. Each time the PC remains the same and switches off almost immediately. I have today replaced the CPU fan to no avail. I have also correctly cleared the RTC RAM by removing power and battery and changing my jumper for five seconds.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what is wrong. I have a sneaking suspicion that the motherboard may well be at fault but I do not know. Can anyone help or make any suggestion of how to test the motherboard. Thank you.
Regards
Gareth
I have recently been experiencing a severe problem with my PC. The PC is about 6 months old now and I built the system myself. The system specs are as follows:
*ASUS M2N32 WS Professional Motherboard
*AMD Athlon 64 X2 5800+ Dual Core CPU
*Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
*Corsair XMS2 Dominator 2GB Matched Pair
*Tagan TG600-U35 Easycon XL 600W PSU
*XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU
*120GB Seagate Barracuda HDD
*ASUS Dual Layer Lightscribe DVD-RW
*Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case
Initially the problem was that it was freezing after POST. Occasionally I was able to get in to Windows XP SP2 but after about five seconds it would freeze.
Recently the problem has become more severe. The PC now behaves very strangely. Upon switching the system on it will switch itself off almost immediately, perhaps within a second or two. There is no smell of electrical burning and I have thoroughly cleaned the inside of the case, including all fans. Every fan within the system except for the GPU fan is spinning. The PSU fan is also spinning. I have two internal case fans which are on their highest setting and both the case, motherboard and CPU temperatures are running below normal as at one point early in the problem I was able to enter the BIOS and review the temperatures.
I have run the system in several configurations. No HDD, no DVD, no memory, 1 stick of RAM, both sticks, no GPU and nothing except the CPU. Each time the PC remains the same and switches off almost immediately. I have today replaced the CPU fan to no avail. I have also correctly cleared the RTC RAM by removing power and battery and changing my jumper for five seconds.
I cannot for the life of me figure out what is wrong. I have a sneaking suspicion that the motherboard may well be at fault but I do not know. Can anyone help or make any suggestion of how to test the motherboard. Thank you.
Regards
Gareth