Boot Loop Help Please

[NotBryson]

Alright folks I've got an interesting problem for ya today. Basically my brothers old pc had an ugly case so he asked me to switch it to another case and i did but now its stuck in a boot loop. It'll turn on for 3 seconds and then turn off time after time with nothing displaying on the monitor, I've tried cleaning and reseating the ram but even without the ram in it, it still has a boot loop, ive also unplugged the sata cable from the drive and with only the cpu psu and mobo in it continues to boot lop\op. I've also tried taking the cmos battery out and putting back with no change. I'm lost at this point any help would be appreciated. It did work before i moved it to this new case.

[The_russian]

1 minute ago, NotBryson said:

even without the ram in it, it still has a boot loop

Yeah, it's going to boot loop without any ram installed. Have you tried taking the components out of the case and booting with everything out?

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, NotBryson said:

Alright folks I've got an interesting problem for ya today. Basically my brothers old pc had an ugly case so he asked me to switch it to another case and i did but now its

Just try taking it out of the new case incase there's a short or something.

 

Otherwise something might have just happened to the windows install?

Can you get into the bios at all?

[Applefreak]

My guess, you have a short somewhere. Run the system outside the case and see if it works. 

[NotBryson]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Just try taking it out of the new case incase there's a short or something.

 

Otherwise something might have just happened to the windows install?

Can you get into the bios at all?

im not rlly sure what taking it out of the case would change

but im not sure it hasnt been on enough to even get to the bios and ive tried turning it on without the hard drive in and it still boot loops so im not sure

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, NotBryson said:

im not rlly sure what taking it out of the case would change

but im not sure it hasnt been on enough to even get to the bios and ive tried turning it on without the hard drive in and it still boot loops so im not sure

The new case might be causing a short with the motherboard that would prevent it from booting.

[NotBryson]

ah that does make sense, how would i fix that, do i just take it out and put it back in?sorry for the late reply i forgot to tag you lol

 

@Streetguru

[Streetguru]

2 hours ago, NotBryson said:

ah that does make sense, how would i fix that, do i just take it out and put it back in?sorry for the late reply i forgot to tag you lol

 

@Streetguru

Pretty much, can just try booting without it first as well.

[NotBryson]

45 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Pretty much, can just try booting without it first as well.

alright so i removed the mobo from the case and moved a cable from behind it that i figured was causing the short but after putting it back in its still stuck in a boot loop

[Streetguru]

31 minutes ago, NotBryson said:

alright so i removed the mobo from the case and moved a cable from behind it that i figured was causing the short but after putting it back in its still stuck in a boot loop

just boot it while it sits on a box or something...

 

otherwise I have no idea, the motherboard might have died from static but that's pretty hard to do

[NotBryson]

21 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

just boot it while it sits on a box or something...

 

otherwise I have no idea, the motherboard might have died from static but that's pretty hard to do

alright so we tested it on a piece of cardboard and it still boot loops, which means that its a problem with the mobo not the case or psu right?

[Streetguru]

15 minutes ago, NotBryson said:

alright so we tested it on a piece of cardboard and it still boot loops, which means that its a problem with the mobo not the case or psu right?

Most likely, you can try just one stick of RAM at a time in each slot

[NotBryson]

10 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Most likely, you can try just one stick of RAM at a time in each slot

yeah we have concluded it to be this crap motherboard thx for all the help 

[Streetguru]

10 minutes ago, NotBryson said:

yeah we have concluded it to be this crap motherboard thx for all the help 

The last thing you can do is reseat the CPU as well