Dropped a desktop, not working properly

[ThePackMan]

Hi. My younger brother's desktop PC was dropped during transportation, I don't know exactly how. It turned on and he was able to use it, but everything was extremely slow, a youtube video lagged, updating/refreshing in chrome took 20 sec, the percent bar in LOL was extremely slow, and everything else just seemed wrong. Suddenly the computer turned itself off and it now sort of tries to reboot but turns off after half a second and just repeats off and on very quickly. The OS is on a SSD.

 

I was thinking maybe either the power supply because of the latest problem I wrote. Maybe the Motherboard, or the processor. Any ideas?

[Guest Kefuren]

Hi. My younger brother's desktop PC was dropped during transportation, I don't know exactly how. It turned on and he was able to use it, but everything was extremely slow, a youtube video lagged, updating/refreshing in chrome took 20 sec, the percent bar in LOL was extremely slow, and everything else just seemed wrong. Suddenly the computer turned itself off and it now sort of tries to reboot but turns off after half a second and just repeats off and on very quickly. The OS is on a SSD.

 

I was thinking maybe either the power supply because of the latest problem I wrote. Maybe the Motherboard, or the processor. Any ideas?

 

I'd start by checking that the cables, heatsinks and PCI(-e) cards are all firmly secured in place.

[tp95112]

Maybe the heatsink is lose and is being throttled

[Geekazoid]

Hi. My younger brother's desktop PC was dropped during transportation, I don't know exactly how. It turned on and he was able to use it, but everything was extremely slow, a youtube video lagged, updating/refreshing in chrome took 20 sec, the percent bar in LOL was extremely slow, and everything else just seemed wrong. Suddenly the computer turned itself off and it now sort of tries to reboot but turns off after half a second and just repeats off and on very quickly. The OS is on a SSD.

 

I was thinking maybe either the power supply because of the latest problem I wrote. Maybe the Motherboard, or the processor. Any ideas?

Oh bugger! Maybe check everything just in case. I hope you manage to fix it.

[AGGELOS_970]

The hard drive is probably damaged. They can be damaged from shock very easily.

Check the heatsink first but there is a good chance that the OS files are corrupt due to the damage the hard drive took.

Are you using a SSD for the OS or a hard drive ?

EDIT: Just saw its on the SSD

Edited January 25, 2014 by AGGELOS_970

[ThePackMan]

Opened it and checked all the cables. Rebooted and says warning your previous overclocking failed. Interesting, will write more once I have more info.

 

More info: I listed f1 or f2 as option, neither worked, it just froze. Rebooted (turned off very quickly), same stuff came up.

 

 

[EvilLemur]

you should try clearing the bios and then trying again. 

[ThePackMan]

I've tried to get into bios, but it doesn't work, just ignores when I'm pushing the buttons it says or other.

 

Maybe I could try another OS drive tomorrow to check.

[Milesgaming]

Check inside the case for any obvious signs, if you don't find one, and you don't find any other soloution, try rebuilding the whole pc. Take it all back out and in again, there might have been a cable loose, which couldn't have been spotted by the eye. 

[ross06187]

I've tried to get into bios, but it doesn't work, just ignores when I'm pushing the buttons it says or other.

 

Maybe I could try another OS drive tomorrow to check.

 

It is not the os stopping you getting into the bios. you should be able to get into the bios with no drives attached at all.  you need to take of the overclock off completely. if you cant get into the bios clear the cosmos.  you should also unplug and replug all the power cables to makes sure they are not loose.  The over clocking failing sounds like a power or a heat issue. 

 

first thin to do is remove all the ram and try it with one stick.  try get into the bios

 

if you get into the bios have a look at the cpu tems under no load. Finally re-sit you cpu and heat sink (waning requires new thermal paste)

 

basically you are going to have to rebuild the computer to find the issue