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| Thread ID: 105944 | 2009-12-19 11:25:00 | Weird booting problem | qazwsxokmijn (102) | Press F1 |
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| 841209 | 2009-12-19 11:25:00 | Friend's month old PC was making a rattling noise which was caused by the CPU stock fan hitting the cable. When I opened the case, lo and behold, the heatsink was NOT making contact with the CPU, almost completely. That explains the hot temperature messages he occasionally received. So, I fastened the heatsink properly, and all was well. The PC booted fine went into desktop, left the room for 10 minutes, and came back to see the PC frozen. We had to shut it down the hard way (the button) and when we tried to turn it back on, it won't even POST and the video card's fan ran at full speed. I then noticed the PSU: a POS Thermal Master 420W with only 16A on the +12v rail. This system has a dual core Intel E6400, 1 HDD, 4GB RAM and a GTX260 which could pull up to 182W alone. Obviously this PSU is not up to the task, so I pointed that out. Nvidia has recommended a minimum of 500W with 36A on the +12v rail. At this point the friend contacted the system builder, another friend who obviously knows ****.....cabling job was abysmal, coupled such a system with a low quality PSU and can't even install the stock Intel heatsink. When asked about the mounting of the heatsink, he denied any wrongdoing. Bull. Why? Because the pin positions were in the unsecured position - the position you need the pins to be at when taking the heatsink off. Friend says his friend has built a few systems, so 'knows what he's doing'. Yeah right. So then I moved on to the RAM, and tried booting the PC with only one stick at a time. Found out one stick maybe faulty as the PC won't POST with said stick, but works fine with the other one. Took the 'faulty' stick back home to test it in my system and what do ya know....it works! What the heck? It even passed IntelBurnTest. Anyone got any suggestion as to what is wrong here? Or what I should do? |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 841210 | 2009-12-19 11:44:00 | Did you try another slot on the mobo?? Since the ram seems to work, the slot it was in, maybe the prob | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 841211 | 2009-12-19 11:46:00 | Did you try another slot on the mobo?? Since the ram seems to work, the slot it was in, maybe the prob Ummm, no, but when testing RAM sticks only the first slot was used....so if the first slot is dying, wouldn't that mean both sticks would have failed to make the PC boot? |
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| 841212 | 2009-12-19 11:49:00 | Pass :p Whats the mobo? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 841213 | 2009-12-19 11:50:00 | Pass :p Whats the mobo? Asus P5.....something....VLM...something? :p Are you beat Speedy? Cause I'm stumped too....will have to see it again tomorrow. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 841214 | 2009-12-19 11:57:00 | P5L-VM with onboard firewire? P5VD2-VM? Yup probably too late to think :p | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 841215 | 2009-12-19 11:59:00 | Well then, we'll see it again tomorrow I guess. Hopefully then some miracle would happen. :p | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 841216 | 2009-12-19 19:25:00 | heatsink was NOT making contact with the CPU POS Thermal Master 420W At this point the friend contacted the system builder, another friend who obviously knows ****.....cabling job was abysmal So then I moved on to the RAM, and tried booting the PC with only one stick at a time. Found out one stick maybe faulty as the PC won't POST with said stick, but works fine with the other one. Compatibility issue? Are they the same RAM or different? Dual Channel, same size? Sigh..........see , everyones a computer expert and builds are easy aren't they. I'm waiting for post xmas when people turn up with complete rubbish they bought that now have issues............ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 841217 | 2009-12-19 21:34:00 | Get the exact model number of the board, that will make it a hell of a lot easier to see whats being dealt with -- it will be on the box which should have been given with the PC --that's if it was given at all :rolleyes: reeks of "cowboy Builder". Other wise printed on the board. That PSU - will more than likely be the stock standard one that came with the case - Maybe a coolermaster. Pcteks comments -- Spot on - not always as plain sailing as it looks :) Everyones an "expert" till it turns to custard :p |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 841218 | 2009-12-19 21:51:00 | Yep, an expert....can't believe how bad the PC build was. Anyway, pctek: the RAM is at least a nice Corsair XMS2 4GB set, so with the brand of RAM at least he got that right. Any idea? |
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