PC Won’t Start – Odd Pre-boot

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Hi,

No doubt it’s going into the shop, but has anyone ever come across a scenario like this:

I booted up to Windows XP, and the system froze on the splash screen. After several minutes of inactivity, I did a hard reboot by holding the power button in.

Since then, it never really turns on. I hear it make the first few sounds towards booting up, but then it immediately dies. Then silence for a few seconds, and it starts this process all over again. It never even gets to the point that the monitor gets a signal from the PC, as the power button on the monitor stays at yellow – never goes to green.

Computer is only 1 year old, Gigabyte motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo, never the slightest problem before this. Any option other than taking it into the shop? Is this a power supply issue?

Thanks for any thoughts.

John

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John,
Well, PS seems to be first suspect. MB the second, but there are multiple other possibilities.
Can you boot into the BIOS to check settings there? Reset to the defaults as a trial? Boot into Safe Mode?

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Amber power button usually means PS failure, or some other PS issue…have you re-seated all connections?

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