fixed the shuts down in a few seconds problem Pc Shuts Down After A Few Seconds I had the same issue and this is how I fixed it. Check your motherboard and make sure all the tiny jumper connectors are correctly connected. These are the connectors from your case to your motherboard. Usually these include power switch jumper, hdd light connector etc. Once I verified all the connectors were properly connected the board worked fine without issues. Hope this helps. -Paul

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my PC shut down again & again after few seconds of interval.
Pc Shuts Down After A Few Seconds

My pc works properly.I have reinstalled os again after perusing this problems.But here is no prob concerning to the software. But still it creates problem while working on it.I have checked out its hardware too. But still there's no any prob there.No any virus at all.I m not able to find out dat actually what's the prob here.

-Smriti

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It is probably something wrong with a new hardware you installed... Try installing system Mechanic and diagnose the problem...

Thanks
Alen

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x2 on that, odomike. Very often if not occasionally I'll read a response that's completely out of the ballpark... usually one-liners that look like people are just either throwing in for credit or just read a couple of lines of the original post and posted whatever came to mind first.

There should be a specific (and not just implied) rule or more enforcement on that... *hint hint*

As for the AMD issue, would that be doubly worse than Intel's design as far as heat goes? If I've interpreted correctly, AMD uses an on-chip die that is the equivalent of Intel's northbridge, which is why it can push out single tasks much faster (which is why it's recommended for gaming application) as there is no travel time as with Intel's processors and the need to communicate with the northbridge, which is physically AWAY from the processor (on the motherboard). I would imagine that with this increased efficiency in performance that AMD processors would generate more heat in this way, and it doesn't help that their heat sinks aren't up to the task of cooling the unit as a whole...

Now, with that said, for the original post...

Someone said something about the processor earlier... I would have to concur. Trying to follow all the troubleshooting steps that you laid out, process of elimination is saying that the processor that's causing the problem. Maybe it finally gave in. Were you overclocking it at all? (That would have killed the life much quicker than if you ran it at the default, stock clockspeed.) What was the cooling like in the case for 2 years? See if you can put your original configuration back together minus the processor and use another processor of the same socket type to see what happens. If it boots, you've confirmed that the processor is bad. If not... whoa.

 

 

 

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pc shuts down after few seconds
Pc Shuts Down After A Few Seconds

I read all the replies in this thread and thought it would solve my problem.. It seemed so alike.
A8N-SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 3000+ @ 2700MHz (for 3 years now..)
1023 MB RAM A-Data 500MHz (2x512)
NVidia 8600GTS @ 770MHzGPU & 2200 RAM DDR3
Spire PSU 500W +3.3v 28A, +5v 35A, +12v 15A, +12v(2) 16A, +5vSB 2.5A

The only way the PC boots is when the ram is in single channel. But.. When I leave the PC turned off for a few hours and then I boot it up it first shuts down as soon as I boot it, after the second retry it shuts down after detecting the HDDs, the third retry it shuts down after displaying the OS choices menu and finally when loading windows vista. In the last retry it boots up fine and I can keep it alive for as long as I want.

When I put the ram in dual channel I get it very very hard to work... It takes tens of retries to get it to boot up in vista. Ram is ok, tested it on other PC, cpu is ok, tested it also, video card is ok, tested it on another mb. I cannot test another PSU and the MB.. For now..

That's it.. I told you before that after a few hours of having the PC off it does these problems... If I turn it off and then on again after a few minutes it works fine. My suspicion would be some components that cool down and must take some time to warm before working fine. I don't know what these components would be in a PC.. Can someone brighten me?

Thanks,
John

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Replying to kvarnerexpressthere is no such thing as a ram virus because once the computer shuts off the ram memory is no more

I believe your problem is your processor your processor if you put it in the other computer and it had a defect in it it fried your board nothing you can do

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I had this problem with my pc today when my brother shut it down and when I turned it on, it would only stay on for 4 seconds before shutting down.

After testing the parts bit by bit I found resetting the BIOS jumper fixed the problem.

Maybe the BIOS messed up, well mines working fine now just thought this might help someone cause it never hurts to give it a try.

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Maybe the cpu of yours overheated...

-reply by SimpleTech

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PC shuts down after 10 - 60 secs
Pc Shuts Down After A Few Seconds

Its a desktop with

ASUS -P5PE-VM board

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It sometimes shutsdown while at bios display or sometimes goes upto the windows startup screen.



I tried removing HDD, DVD drive, RAM, etc etc.

Tried booting with knoppix.



The weird thing is , this same desktop (with same mouse+keyboard) works at my office nonstop for like 150 hours.

I purchased an UPS to see if thats the difference between office and home.

That didnt help. Surge protecters didnt help.



From the same power outlet at home, I have 2 laptops and one another desktop running without any issues..



Only other difference between office and my home is the monitor.

I don't have a spare monitor at home to test.. So I started the pc without connecting monitor. And that didnt help.



Now the only remaining factor is the office is AC and home is non-AC.



From the same power outlet , I have 2 laptops and one another desktop running without any issues..



Something is about to fail or very sensitive in my PC, which couldnt handle the home environment .. I couldnt imagine what else would be different between office and home.



-Alex







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PC shuts down after brief few second powerup
Pc Shuts Down After A Few Seconds

Replying to Trap FeedBacker

I was googling similar issues. My machine had the same characteristics and could not figure out what was going on. I replace the power supply about 1 yr ago and was thinking of doing the same thing again. I unplugged everything and took the side panels, brought it outside, used a air compressor to remove all the dust, etc.

That took care of the problem. I believe that some lint/fuzz ball was shortcirciuting one of the boards. What an inexpensive fix!

-reply by Gerry

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