Hey gang,
Great article shortstuff_mt! Unfortunately I'm still having issues.
I put together a new system from all completely new components. The system POSTed fine, I ran Memtest+ on it for a few cycles. No issues. Installed Vista x64 (yeah, I know) with no problems. Patched the hell out of it and had a few crashes in Oblivion (forgot to disable onboard sound, forgot to get the latest drivers, all that fun stuff). Finally I seemed to have everything working right. Then a few days ago the system just up and powered itself off and then powered back on a few seconds later only to power off again after a second. It eventually got tired of doing this cycle and POSTed OK and booted the OS. Started up Oblivion again and it powers itself off and goes to town rebooting itself. I powered it off and left it off and hit the sauce for the rest of the night.
Another night same deal, was playing Oblivion and then it froze. I figured I'd give it some time to see if the system would respond before soft resetting it. Eventually I noticed that the blue led on the case fan was flickering at a rate of once every second. After a minute of this it powered itself down and would power on power off like mad again.
Now TODAY (sorry this is so long) the thing boots into Vista. The game starts and I don't get past the title screen before it powers off. After turning off the psu, I unplug all case fans (of course they are the molex adapter ones and not the 3 pins) and try to get it to POST. No good. I then repeat with removing all case USB, 1394, eSata, power, reset, and hd light connections. Still no dice. I then remove all SATA connections from the motherboard and unplug their power connections. Still not happening. As a last ditch effort I unplug mouse, keyboard, and monitor. No good.
Now I have the whole case apart. I've got the thing pretty much doing the breadboarding thing (thermaltake case has a pretty slick motherboard tray that slides out of the rest of the case. mobo still on that having a good ole time on it's standoffs) and what do you know...it POSTs just fine.
Whew. Based on the above would you agree that there is something up with the case that is causing a short? Or is there something I'm missing. I have left out some detail as my post is long enough already. If you want specs, just ask.
Going back to the sauce. Thanks for reading
Great article shortstuff_mt! Unfortunately I'm still having issues.
I put together a new system from all completely new components. The system POSTed fine, I ran Memtest+ on it for a few cycles. No issues. Installed Vista x64 (yeah, I know) with no problems. Patched the hell out of it and had a few crashes in Oblivion (forgot to disable onboard sound, forgot to get the latest drivers, all that fun stuff). Finally I seemed to have everything working right. Then a few days ago the system just up and powered itself off and then powered back on a few seconds later only to power off again after a second. It eventually got tired of doing this cycle and POSTed OK and booted the OS. Started up Oblivion again and it powers itself off and goes to town rebooting itself. I powered it off and left it off and hit the sauce for the rest of the night.
Another night same deal, was playing Oblivion and then it froze. I figured I'd give it some time to see if the system would respond before soft resetting it. Eventually I noticed that the blue led on the case fan was flickering at a rate of once every second. After a minute of this it powered itself down and would power on power off like mad again.
Now TODAY (sorry this is so long) the thing boots into Vista. The game starts and I don't get past the title screen before it powers off. After turning off the psu, I unplug all case fans (of course they are the molex adapter ones and not the 3 pins) and try to get it to POST. No good. I then repeat with removing all case USB, 1394, eSata, power, reset, and hd light connections. Still no dice. I then remove all SATA connections from the motherboard and unplug their power connections. Still not happening. As a last ditch effort I unplug mouse, keyboard, and monitor. No good.
Now I have the whole case apart. I've got the thing pretty much doing the breadboarding thing (thermaltake case has a pretty slick motherboard tray that slides out of the rest of the case. mobo still on that having a good ole time on it's standoffs) and what do you know...it POSTs just fine.
Whew. Based on the above would you agree that there is something up with the case that is causing a short? Or is there something I'm missing. I have left out some detail as my post is long enough already. If you want specs, just ask.
Going back to the sauce. Thanks for reading
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