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By Nohemi
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So I built my computer about a month ago. It has been working fine. Now when I try to turn it on, it derps up. The fans start spinning and everything seems to be working fine for a few seconds, but then it turns off and on and off and on constantly. When I say constantly, I mean a second later. It looks like it is stuck in a loop of turning off and on and I don't know why. I tried turning on the system manually by shorting the two pins on te motherboard, but it does the same exact thing. If this matters I have an AsRock Extreme 3 Mobo with the NZXT s340 black and blue case.

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The PSU should of come with a little plastic piece that connects to the 24 pin mobo connector, unplug everything and just plug the 24pin into the plastic piece, plug the PSU in with eco mode off and see if the fan spins

 

 

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Do you have a speaker installed on the motherboard? If so what is the beep code?

If you don't have a speaker installed just try reseating the RAM.

Also try booting with one stick of RAM at a time.

 

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I started getting the same issue with my system a few months after building it. I looked into it but couldnt find any reliable solutions. I have just learned to deal with at it will eventually turn on. Sometimes after 2 failed attempts, sometimes after 2 minutes... And sometimes it doesnt do this at all.

When in doubt, re-format.

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I started getting the same issue with my system a few months after building it. I looked into it but couldnt find any reliable solutions. I have just learned to deal with at it will eventually turn on. Sometimes after 2 failed attempts, sometimes after 2 minutes... And sometimes it doesnt do this at all.

mine just turns on and off in seconds. Its is not usable

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mine just turns on and off in seconds. Its is not usable

Yea, mine does that, and then after a while it will finally boot properly. As some of the others have said, try reseating the ram (take it out and put it back in) (thats what she said)

 

And if that doesnt work, try running the ram individually to rule out a bad DIMM.

When in doubt, re-format.

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I tried the ram but it still does the same thing I also tried putting it in different slots. If it helps the cpu fans is the one the usually stops and starts first?

 

Yea, mine does that, and then after a while it will finally boot properly. As some of the others have said, try reseating the ram (take it out and put it back in) (thats what she said)

 

And if that doesnt work, try running the ram individually to rule out a bad DIMM.

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I tried the ram but it still does the same thing I also tried putting it in different slots. If it helps the cpu fans is the one the usually stops and starts first?

 

Sorry, that was the best I had. Like I said, my solution to the problem was just to live with it as it would eventually always turn on. Best of luck.

When in doubt, re-format.

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could be the cpu. try removing and cleaning up and reapplying thermal paste. make sure the HS&F are seated flush on the cpu before cross tightening the hold down bolts/push pins.............. stock hold downs on the intel cpu hs best done with board out of case so you can actually see that they secure properly. \

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could be the cpu. try removing and cleaning up and reapplying thermal paste. make sure the HS&F are seated flush on the cpu before cross tightening the hold down bolts/push pins.............. stock hold downs on the intel cpu hs best done with board out of case so you can actually see that they secure properly. \

 

i will try that once I'm done with Finals, lol. I'll get back to you then.

 

Sorry, that was the best I had. Like I said, my solution to the problem was just to live with it as it would eventually always turn on. Best of luck.

Yeah I might just disassemble and reassemble the whole computer to see what went wrong. I will do this during Christmas break because right now I am just too busy studying for Finals

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try a different PSU if you have one. if not maybe RMA the mobo?

 

yeah I want to. but I'm not Linus and don't have computer parts galore lying around, I might just go to MicroCenter to ask them to test out all the parts I have  :)

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