power problem, fan starts then stops

[Male32NW4fun]

I was using my comp recently and it suddenly announced it was going into
standby and would not restart.
I stripped it down and it seems that when I press the on button the CPU fan and
power supply fan both turn for around 1 second then it loses power.
I've tried disconnecting all the drives in turn and pulling out all the cards
but to no avail.
Can anyone help?

 

[~misfit~]

I was using my comp recently and it suddenly announced it was going
into standby and would not restart.
I stripped it down and it seems that when I press the on button the
CPU fan and power supply fan both turn for around 1 second then it
loses power.
I've tried disconnecting all the drives in turn and pulling out all
the cards but to no avail.
Can anyone help?

Not really but I'll give you $5 for it. ;-)

I disable 'Hibernate' in all new XP installs I do and disable sleep mode in
BIOS as well. More trouble than they're worth IMO.

Actually try clearing the CMOS.

 

[Paul Murphy]

I was using my comp recently and it suddenly announced it was going into
standby and would not restart.
I stripped it down and it seems that when I press the on button the CPU fan and
power supply fan both turn for around 1 second then it loses power.
I've tried disconnecting all the drives in turn and pulling out all the cards
but to no avail.
Can anyone help?

Since the first words in the subject indicate a power problem, have you
looked at the power supply unit as being the cause of all the problems? My
bet would be that's where the problem is (rather than any of the cards or
drives). PSUs are generally one of the least reliable parts in the average
PC. If you try another PSU in the machine that will likely resurrect things
(unless the old one has taken other bits with it to hardware heaven -
sometimes happens with PSU failures).

Paul