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keimigca

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Ok, I just sat down at my pc for a bit of gaming, and all of a sudden the power turned off. I looked down at the power strip and it was off too. Ok, I reset the strip and tried to power back on, nothing. So I unhooked the strip and powered straight into the outlet and it powered up for about 5 sec. and then shut down. It would power up and shut down, on and off, until I hit the hard power button on the power supply. Any ideas?
Chris
 
You more then likely had a power surge which caused your surge protector to turn it self off. When you say you have to hit the hard power button on the PSU is that turning it on completely? or is it still having the same issue regardless?

Unplug your system and then hit the power button on the front. This should drain the system powers out mostly. After doing that leave the system off and unplugged for about 15-20min. This will insure their is no power left except the CMOS battery which is fine. Then plug the system back in and see what happens. Besides that you could have a damaged PSU.

Also your power strip might be dead if it was a power surge and it was large enough of one. I would highly suggest not plugging your system directly into the wall right this second because you could have another surge which is not uncommon after having the first one.
 
I have to hit the button on the back of psu to shut it down. It wont even get to the boot stage, it sounds like it is going to boot and then shuts off for a couple of seconds and then tries to start back up again.

chris
 
Oh so its just restarting it self right when it turns on. Hmm sounds like a messed up PSU or possibly a issue with the motherboard. If you dont have a ton of custom settings I would try and reset my BIOS by removing the CMOS battery. See if that helps.
 
I was just about to mention this also. His PS and mobo may have been affected due to the power surge. If you have another PS, try swapping the PS out.

teamlockdown said:
Oh so its just restarting it self right when it turns on. Hmm sounds like a messed up PSU or possibly a issue with the motherboard. If you dont have a ton of custom settings I would try and reset my BIOS by removing the CMOS battery. See if that helps.
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Yeah, I think I will try pulling the battery for the cmos, It only turns on for a few sec. and then boom shuts off, so I dont know if its anything but the psu(it seems like it doesnt get far enough into booting up for anything else, but who knows).

chris
 
This might sound a little weird but take a smell of the air coming out of your PSU. Seem if it smells a little funky because you could have burnt something out. Also know that we know their is something possibly wrong with the PSU I suggest using it as little as possible. Try the CMOS part but besides that I would not keep using it. It could be giving your board to much power or not enough and making things worse. Suggest going to your local computer store and getting a Power Supply tester before we declare its actually bad.
 
Wish I had an extra psu, so I will try the cmos part and hope for the best. Nothing funky smelling from the psu though.

chris
 
Try buy one locally for now. If it still doesn't work, return the PS. If it does work, then you got your system up and running again.
 
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