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try removing a ram stick, i cant tell if you have one or two in

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Is it doing this on its own, or are you pushing the power button when it turns off?

 

What happens if you disconnect power and then reconnect?  Does it do it automatically or wait for you to press the power button?

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On its own, I just push the power button once and it just continuously happens

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It's trying to boot, but is hitting an error. Try removing all USB peripherals including your monitor. If it boots, then plug in the monitor. 

 

Re-seat all your connectors. Power, CPU, HDD, SATA

 

Try removing even the cables to the CD-ROM drive.

 

Then, if you do get it to boot, slowly plug devices back in until it turns off. Hopefully it won't but then again, hopefully it will so you can find the source of the issue

 

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2 minutes ago, SBF said:

My PC has been working for quite a while and everything works, Why is it turning off and on?

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Clear CMOS. And try with one ram stick in. Unplug everything. except for bare essentials. 

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Have you tryed to disconnect the power button? Would almost look like it's kinda stuck...

 

If you disconnect the power button, you can "hotwire" your pc using a piece of metal, to bridge the 2 pins for the power button. (screwdriver works fine)

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Just now, Firecheetah13 said:

is your cpu power connector in

 

Yes

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Did it just start when you went to turn it on or has the computer randomly shut off in the past? The reason I'm asking is that I recently had something very similar to this happen.

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3 minutes ago, Firecheetah13 said:

try removing a ram stick, i cant tell if you have one or two in

I removed my ONE ram stick and it started working. Why is that?

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2 minutes ago, SBF said:

I removed my ONE ram stick and it started working. Why is that?

Chances are that the CPU is trying to feed data to the RAM and it isn't able to store it, so the computer shuts down and tries again. Anyway, your RAM is dead.

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