when i try to start the power on my pc nothing happens the fans power up my monitors are on but no BIOs boot no OS nothing ive gone to work with it on, and when i return its off and my keyboard is still illuminated but there isnt any fans that are running in my case what i did to get to this mess up point my primary HDD only shows ~600GB when it is a 1.5TB HDD so i cloned my primary to another and that worked i just havent found the time to re-format my primary HDD and then re-clone all of my info so i think it the fact that there are 2 OSs and what not that is causing a conflict and it shuts down does anyone know what i can do to be 100% sure im at work now so it will have to wait i was thinking about unplugging the SATA power and hoping like h3ll that it works any thoughts?
i disconnected the power cable to the cloned HDD and its still doing the same thing! the CD rom is also unresponsive can anyone give me any options here? im at a complete loss
First: check out your power cables on the motherboard (both ones, the ATX 20/24 pin and the 12V 4/8 pin) and the graphics card (My PC once would turn on then off after 5 secs and it turned out my power cable moved a little) Second: Disconnet any hardware you currently don't need, extra HDDs with other OSes etc, and if possible change the questionable HDD and try putting a fresh OS on a formated drive Third: try flashing your BIOS
Even thou your keyboard lights up and case fans spin, I say you have a dieing Power supply. If you can get another Power Supply to test from another PC, stock pile, or friend. That would be the easiest way to approach this. No "average Joe" way to Flash Bios Jozo, he can't even boot.
I think the above posts are right, failing power supply, how ever you may find that changing your CMOS battery fixes it, at least temporarily.
