good evening all I am just looking for a 2nd opinion on a hardware fault on a PC I am looking at. The PC boots then after just a few mins ( can vary its random ) it just switches itself off again. I have swapped out PSU = same fault ( thought this was going to be the issue ) swapped out Ram = same fault reseated & re thermal pasted CPU = same fault so that leaves me with a faulty processor or faulty motherboard ? but this leaves me with the problem of which one to order first as there is no way really of knowing which one is the faulty item ? the processor is amd A4-3300 dual core the motherboard is a asus F1A55 - M LE thanks in advance
Since it's mostly the mainboard that dies, i would vote for this . The only dead CPUs i met so far died together with the board or due to incorrect seat of heatspreader (ages ago).
Thanks for the reply but it can do this even when you are in the bios screen so I don't think a windows reinstall is going to make a lot of difference.
Asus motherboard printed on it states F1A55 - M LE have tested with everything unplugged = same error after a few mins interestingly after a shutdown / power loss the power on will not respond for 2 or 3 pushes of the button then it powers up again and repeats the shutdown after a few more mins ( random sometimes nearly straight away other times after 2 / 3 mins ) I guess the motherboard is looking most likely ?
Well mega strange ? today its all running fine ??????????? what the ............. ?? no switching off at all dam intermittent faults make it so very difficult to fix !! you can put money on the fact that as soon as I give it back it to the owner it will start playing up again. I will stress test it for a couple of days and see how things go but so far its been running for several hours with no fault whatsoever ?? Previously I would not have got more than a few minutes without a complete shutdown!! Grrrrrrr !!!!!
@The Dev: I had a similar problem with CPU overheating. What I did was redo the heatsink with Arctic Silver. @logicwatch: Definitely worth looking at. :MJ
Hi guys thanks for the comments This is a desktop PC not a laptop I have re thermal pasted the CPU Temperatures are around 40c I am currently stress testing it and its been running for several hours no issues I cannot replicate yesterdays fault ?
Well this morning after working on stress testing software all day yesterday perfectly today it now keeps switches off after just 5 secs. !! I must admit it does look like a PSU fault with these symptoms but I have swapped out the PSU with the same fault. I can therefore only conclude it is a power related issue with the Motherboard and will order one asap.