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October 6, 2007 at 03:25 PM
slaughterdog

On power up PC runs for a few seconds then shuts off

by slaughterdog . Updated 18 years, 9 months ago

I’ve seen similar questions here about this issue but all of them seemd to be relating to a new machine. I came home from work yesterday to my PC being shut off and a clock on the same house circuit flashing. Apparently the fuse that the PC was on blew while I was away and the PC defaults to power off.

Now when I press the power button everything turns on, drives spin up, DVD drive lights come on and the fans start spinning. This lasts for a second or two and then it powers down, not even enough time for POST beeps or anything. So is this likely the power supply or something else? My mobo and CPU are only about 5 months old so I really hope I don’t have to get new ones.

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