dead machine kinda

GobblesGobbles Ventura California
edited September 2004 in Hardware
You hit the power button and it lights up and shuts right back off.. :doh:

any ideas...

Im yanking the psu tonight... Im thinkin bad PSU or Proc is dead...

I will refrain from listing the specs as its a mom and dad went and got a machine with out me PC... and its utterly embarassing... :banghead:

But they want me to try and fix it or atleast due a data recovery. :thumbsup:


TIA

Gobbles

Comments

  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited October 2003
    This a P4 machine?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Give a new PSU a go. The processor being dead doesn't produce those symptoms.

    (How do you like your Celeron?)
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited October 2003
    If there is a setting in the bios to shut the system down in the event of CPU Fan failure it could do exactly what you describe. Most bios's now come with a delay on the shutdown. Older bios's would power up, see the CPU Fan not spinning (or not spinning fast enough) and shut the system right off. It was a real Catch-22, since it was hard to get into the bios to turn off the "Shutdown On CPU Fan Failure" setting, if you couldn't get the comp to run at all.

    Try clearing the CMOS and see if it will startup.
    :wave:

    EDIT: Hey, Thrax - just noticed your sig. When I think of "enchanted pillows" I do not think of facial tissue. More like big giant massive pendulous (edited for taste) ...
    :vimp:
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    thrax wins... it is a celeron.. I was not around during its purchase..

    to compound things is a.... hp pavillion..

    *faints*

    Gobbles
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Only the Celeron could be an unmentionable shame. ;D
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    swap the hdd into another box for data recovery and tell them that you need to rebuild the whole thing.
    Does HP use propriatary psu config?????
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited October 2003
    hmmm..not fore sure if HP uses the propriatary psu or not...but before I would go and stick another psu in it, I would give there lovely tech support a call to find out, I'm also curious to find this out so I will know if a HP comes into the office at work.
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    well...look on the bright side...atleast its not an emachine
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    So I finally got around to lookin at moms pc..

    Its a:
    HP Pavillion 4445
    Celeron 400mhz
    128 meg Ram

    So I pull the PSU out, its not a standard PSU size wise, its somekinda micro unit. I left it connected, I plug it in and it fires up no problem. Odd one. Its a micro case which sucks to work in.. but im gonna pull all apart this weekend and clean it as the things is about gross inside. Im gonna plug it into my network and due a complete Antivirus sweep of it, back up image and the works.. lucky its mom and dad or id charge em 150 to do it... Ill toss on a copy of symantec corp av 8 etc..

    I find it rather odd that it fired up with the PSU outside the case, the system is on its side and the PSU is resting on the side of the case so its till touching roughly the same area where it sat before. Maybe a wire was in the way of the cpu fan (a coolermaster) and it was causing it not to spin which caused it to fail.

    Its using the INTEL 440 zx chipset.. Does that have a cpu fan monitor setting?

    anywho...

    Gobbles
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    I seriously doubt it, ASUS implements fan monitoring/temps with a seperate IC on my P2B-B (440BX). 440ZX? Time to upgrade, man. Get another Celeron 400, put em both in an Abit BP6, and clock clock clock!

    -drasnor :fold:
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited October 2003
    its mom and dads hp pavillion.. Its a micro tower..

    they surf the web and dad does excel and plays some of them popcap games.. Aint worth the trouble..

    I took it apart and completely cleaned it inside and out, I finished running the virus scans, 8 virus, now im running spybot, OMG can we not click ok, after that I got a killer registry tool that ill run and fix the registy, then defrag time..

    Gobbles
  • Access_DeniedAccess_Denied tennessee
    edited September 2004
    WuGgaRoO wrote:
    well...look on the bright side...atleast its not an emachine

    ditto
    i have a
    E-Machine W4682
    Win xp home
    Pentium 4 @ 2.60Ghx
    512Mb Kinston pc2700
    Intel Extream **** graphics :bawling:
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