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immediately goes to standby?
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Posted by: stoole
Hi everyone,
When I power up my PC, I hear the cooling fan start up, the num/caps/scroll lock lights on my keyboard blink, but then everything goes quiet and the power indicator light starts to flash. It's the same flash it would do if it were in standby mode. The fan runs for less than a second before it goes to this fake standby mode. The PC does not beep or send anything to the monitor. There is no activity on either the floppy or hard disk drives.
Unfortunately, I can't run Mysoft PC Information, but I can tell you what I was invoiced for:
Processor: 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon
Memory: 256 MB C2PC133 not sure of manufacturer
Video Card: XPERT2000 32 MEG SDRAM
Sound Card: Soundblaster Live Value OEM version
O/S: Win2K SP4 (I know this is correct.)
The only thing that changed right before the problem started was that my wife moved the computer into a different room. She did not open the case.
I tried reseating the memory card and most of the cables inside the computer.
The only good thing about all this is that I backed up my computer pretty recently.
Any suggestions on what else I can try/test would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
Posted by: Whifflebat
sounds to me like something is loose inside the case, the motherboard knows it and is going into sort of a protective mode. Does your computer have any indicator lights on it besides the power lights? Mine has a 4 LED cluster in the back that tells whats wrong, so do dells.
I have had this problem before, after transporting my computer, turns out the processor itself was unseated. I removed the heatsink and the processor came off with it. I put it back in the slot, put it all back together and it booted right up.
Posted by: redwench
yup, you need to reseat all the major components, including the power leads. something got loose, or possibly died.
Posted by: stoole
Thanks for the advice. Mine doesn't have the 4 LED cluster like Dells do. The only other light is an LED on the motherboard itself (only visible when the case is off). On the motherboard right next to it is printed "PLED" and it is on when the PC is powered up. It fades out after about 5 sec after shutdown.
Last night I reseated everything I could take off. I didn't reseat the heatsink and fan over the CPU but just left it off. I could not figure out how to remove the CPU itself but it appears to be secure.
The fan over the CPU heatsink was not powering up. The only fan that comes on even briefly is over a think black chip that is about 1 inch square. There are no screws for this fan so I couldn't remove it to see what was underneath. It says "FFAN" on the mother board where the power for this fan plugs in.
I also removed the CMOS battery. The connection looked clean. Is it worth trying a new battery? Should I check the hard drive by installing it into another computer? Is there anything else I should attempt?
TIA
Posted by: redwench
hard drive is irrelevant. you just need cpu, ram, and video to boot. take out everything else. although if you get it to boot without the heatsink and fan, youre going to have a cooked chip.
Posted by: stoole
Thanks for the warning. I'll put the heatsink & fan back.
Posted by: stoole
Hey, just wanted to thank both of you who helped me. I took everything out and added enough back to get functioning again. I think it was a bum PCI slot.
Stoole
Posted by: Whifflebat
Cool 
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