I am trying to fix a custom PC. See specs below. The PC wouldn’t turn on a month ago and I have finally hit a road block in fixing it. So far I have replaced the power supply with an APEVIA ATX-AS500W-GN 500W ATX this brought power back but alerted me to a broken system fan on the motherboard. I replaced this with second hand 1.5 inch fan that is using the new power supply (so I can tell you any speeds). Next Window XP 64-bit will run for 2 minutes max and the whole thing shuts down. Here’s the rub, I’ve been in the BIOS and pre-boot menu’s for up to 15 minutes, the CPU temp doesn’t go above 32C, but as soon as Windows loads it shuts down shortly after. I have the tower out in the open the fans arn’t being blocked, I’ve cleaned out all the dust. What can I do.
Note: The Samsung drive is the only HD running due to a bad STA cable.
– Pioneer DVD Burner Black IDE Model DVR-109
– SAMSUNG SpinPoint P Series SP1213C 120GB 7200 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive
– Microsoft Windows XP Professional X64
– Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ES SB0162 5.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Card
– AMC 8 inches 4-Pin Power Cable Splitter Model Y Power Cable
– APEVIA X-Navigator ATXA8NW-AL/500 Silver / Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply
– BIOSTAR NF4UL-A9 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ATX AMD Motherboard
– AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Single-Core Processor Model ADA3200BPBOX
– Leadtek A400 GT TDH GeForce 6800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card
– Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3200827AS 200GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive – OEM
