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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: kwfine on July 29, 2011, 11:35:13 AM

Title: PC shut down immediately after cold boot
Post by: kwfine on July 29, 2011, 11:35:13 AM

Hi all,

My PC is 4 years old. It has got 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Raedon HD 4600 PCIe series, CoolerMaster 550W running on XP SP2.
Recently, it shut down immediately after a cold boot. Sometimes it shut down before I could see the Desktop screen.

Since it kept shutting down, I thought that the problem might be caused by some corrupted core files of Windows XP, so I used True Image 10 to restore the system back to 2 years ago when everything ran very well. But the PC still shut down after the restoration of the system.

I had also used MeMTest86+ to do the memory check, and the 2GB RAM passed the test.

I have no idea what happened.

Please help me if you could.

Thank you so much for your time.

Kitty

Title: Re: PC shut down immediately after cold boot
Post by: patio on July 29, 2011, 12:04:59 PM

My 1st suspect would be heat...
Carefully remove all power and a side panel to see if  all fans work...
If you can get it to run long enough DLoad install and run SpeedFan...Post your temps here.

Does it do the same thing in safe mode ? ?

Title: Re: PC shut down immediately after cold boot
Post by: Computer_Commando on July 29, 2011, 12:06:59 PM

Your description indicates it's POSTing, because you booted a CD to run Memtest.  Correct?
Did you try running in Safe Mode?