Hi all,
My brothers PC seems to have gone bad on him. I don't know the exact details as I have not gone over there to look myself (so have not yet been able to do any troubleshooting), when I do I may be able to identify the problem easily, but until then I was hoping I may be able to get some ideas thrown at me.
The symptom is simple:
He turns the PC on, it starts going through its checks then switches off. He mentioned 2 green lights, 3 red which off the top of my head made me think about the CPU as ther are 4 or 5 lights by it I believe.
Worth noting, that after the symptom began, after a long break, the PC was able to turn on again fully though it turned off in 30 mins. Has me thinking there may be an overheating issue.
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It is not much to go on, but if anyone can throw in what they believe may be the problem based on similar experiences of a PC turning on but turning off again during 'check phase'.
Worth noting that the PC is not new and so it is not a case of anything having been installed incorrectly.
At the moment i am suspecting a CPU/cooling issue, the PC is a few years old, perhaps the heatsink is loose or a replacement of thermal paste is required.
My other thought is perhaps the PSU is starting to fail. It is a few years old and I cannot remember what PSU was put inside but I don't think it was particularly high quality.
But I could be way off.
Off the top of my head the system is:
E8400
GTX 460
GIgabyte (can't remember model)
G Skill DDR3 RAM
500gb Samsung HDD
Asus Cooler (or possibly Hyper 212)
PSU 650W
Thanks for any suggestions!
My brothers PC seems to have gone bad on him. I don't know the exact details as I have not gone over there to look myself (so have not yet been able to do any troubleshooting), when I do I may be able to identify the problem easily, but until then I was hoping I may be able to get some ideas thrown at me.
The symptom is simple:
He turns the PC on, it starts going through its checks then switches off. He mentioned 2 green lights, 3 red which off the top of my head made me think about the CPU as ther are 4 or 5 lights by it I believe.
Worth noting, that after the symptom began, after a long break, the PC was able to turn on again fully though it turned off in 30 mins. Has me thinking there may be an overheating issue.
----
It is not much to go on, but if anyone can throw in what they believe may be the problem based on similar experiences of a PC turning on but turning off again during 'check phase'.
Worth noting that the PC is not new and so it is not a case of anything having been installed incorrectly.
At the moment i am suspecting a CPU/cooling issue, the PC is a few years old, perhaps the heatsink is loose or a replacement of thermal paste is required.
My other thought is perhaps the PSU is starting to fail. It is a few years old and I cannot remember what PSU was put inside but I don't think it was particularly high quality.
But I could be way off.
Off the top of my head the system is:
E8400
GTX 460
GIgabyte (can't remember model)
G Skill DDR3 RAM
500gb Samsung HDD
Asus Cooler (or possibly Hyper 212)
PSU 650W
Thanks for any suggestions!