New
#1
Restarting, again, and again.
My sister's boyfriend brought over his computer and an extra case, the task, move his computer components into the other case since the other case had working Hard Drive mounts.
So we extract everything from the old case and clean off the layers of dust and condensed dust bunnies from the fan areas. We used compressed air canisters bought from the local computer shop. I used the canister to blow air out of the heatsink, fans, chipset heatsink, the graphics card, and the PSU.
I also put Arctic Silver 5 on the CPU and Chipset heatsinks.
We then put everything inside the "new" case but everything was a tight fit due to the sheer size of the motherboard and especially the graphics card.
After hooking up everything we turned it on. . .Then it shut itself off, then turned itself on and stayed on, but nothing showed-up on the screen, both of us directing attention to the GFX card.
But after tinkering and trying many techniques, including a BIOS reset, disconnect the hard drives, then take out the GFX card, but the issue persists. The computer turns on and then shuts off, again, and, again, and again, stuck in this loop. I'm suspicious of the issue being power related, but there can also be a different hardware issue.
I want you to all post any and all solutions possible, he is staying the night for 4 days and we are scratching our heads over this, we will read and follow any advice and possible solutions given so please post anything you would suspect to cause this continuous restart loop.
Computer specs:
OS: Windows 7 and Linux Dual-boot
Processor: Intel i7 920 using stock fan and heatsink.
Motherboard: Intel DX58SO (this thing is HUGE)
RAM: 6GB DDR3 1600
Hard Drive(s):
x1 1TB SATA
x1 500GB SATA
x1 200GB SATA (boot drive)
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce EVGA 9800GTX 512MB (long card)
Power: 500W unit
Again, please post any possible fixes and we will attempt them next time we look at this thread.
Thank you.