Desktop computer has power for about 40 seconds and shuts down

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Desktop computer has power for about 40 seconds and shuts down. It does not
get to the welcome page. The moniter is Black and the computer does not have
any power lights indicating that the power is on.
 
Sound like a bad or overloaded power supply. Did you recently add any
hardware to your PC?
If so this could be the straw the broke the Power Supplies back.

JS
 
Sounds like a power supply problem.
Do you have access to another power supply to try?
Unless it is a "very custom" chassis design, a new power supply should be less than $50 USD.
But be aware it could be a motherboard problem as well as newer system use motherboard circuitry to
turn on and off the power supply. It might be worth taking it to a tech if you feel uncomfortable
checking out these items.
 
Hi,

Just as Richard in AZ suggested, it may be the power supply may finally be
"giving up the ghost".

You might want to try disconnecting all peripherals except keyboard, mouse,
and monitor. Disconnnect any additional harddrives except for the one you
boot for, and cd/dvd players or burners, scanners, printers, ANYTHING. This
will lighten the load on the PSU, and give you half a fighting chance of
booting up. If it does boot sucessfully, then you know the PSU is
inadequate for all the peripherals.

Please post back with what you find.

--
Curt BD-MVBT

http://dundats.mvps.org/
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http://www.aumha.org/
 
My IT person thinks the processor may be dead. How Can I Retrive my
files?
 
It's rare that a processor would go bad, more likely a heat sink or fan
problem. That said, you can move the hard drive to another PC to recover the
files.

JS
 
msbaybay4 via WindowsKB.com said:
My IT person thinks the processor may be dead. How Can I Retrive
my
files?
Click to expand...

That is simple to do, if the processor or any other parts except for the
drive itself have failed. Simply move the drive to another system and copy
the files off.

At the worst, you will have to take ownership of the files.

Note that a number of key data files, like Outlook and Outlook Express mail
stores and the Windows Address book are in folders that by default are
hidden. Be sure that you turn on the Show Hidden and System files options
in Explorer (under Tools, folder options, view) when you go to look for
those files.

Also note that moving the drive to another system does *not* mean that you
can just boot from your old drive in the new system. To do that, you'll
almost certainly have to do a repair install. But, you'll also want to
back up that drive first, which means you'd be booting from another drive.

HTH
-pk
 
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