So here we go...I put in a brand new video card (XFX 8600gt 620 clock) in my pc just a week or two ago, and since then I've shut my pc down a few times as I go to work and school and come back to power on just fine. This was up until just yesterday.
So yesterday I decided to reformat and try to set up dual boot Vista and XP. I have two drives, and I wanted to keep my main windows drives as C and D on one drive (two partitions), but the windows setup wasn't seeing the drive letters right with the second drive plugged in. So I powered down, unplugged the second drive and went to power up again, but it would only power up for a split second then shut down again (basically just enough time for me to press and depress the button button). So I flip the switch on the back of the psu and turn it back on, and this time it powers up, but nothing would post on the screen. Fans, hard drive, cd drives, everything is up and running, but nothing is posting on screen or any hdd accessing noises indicating that it's booting into windows.
Eventually my friend suggested I maybe reseat the video card or try a different one, thinking I may have statically popped something. So I take my video card out and put it back in, powered it up, and whaddaya know everything works again.
I thought that the powering issue was because of unplugging/plugging the power cable to the hard drive, but later on I found out it happens anytime the computer gets powered down. As long as it's off and I try to turn it back on, I get the split second turn on/off. Then I proceed to go through the steps again and go through the "everything on but nothing posting" phase, and eventually the removing and replacing of the video card.
It's happened 3-4 times now and taking out and putting the video card back in works everytime.
Ok so long explanation out of the way...does anybody know wtf is going on? Is it the psu, video card, or mobo causing the problem? Here's what I have:
- Raidmax 630w modular psu (yea yea I know this might be it. I've had it for a year with naught a problem though until now)
- ECS KN1 SLi Lite Mobo
- XFX 8600gt (620MHz)
- Athlon 64 X2 4200 @ 2.2Ghz
- 2gb OCZ ram
- 1x Seagate 320gb; 1x WD 120gb
- DVD drive; CD drive
Everything is running at stock.
I'm thinking it's most likely the psu, but why would taking the vid card out and putting it back in fix it? The 8600gt is brand new so maybe it shouldn't be it? It was working for the first week or so when I put it in after all. I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but lately when I would power down my pc, for some reason Vista would just not shut down properly. It would get stuck at the "Shutting Down..." screen for at least 3 minutes and just would not shut down. Everytime I had to get goin so I just soft powered down via the power button.
Any help appreciated
So yesterday I decided to reformat and try to set up dual boot Vista and XP. I have two drives, and I wanted to keep my main windows drives as C and D on one drive (two partitions), but the windows setup wasn't seeing the drive letters right with the second drive plugged in. So I powered down, unplugged the second drive and went to power up again, but it would only power up for a split second then shut down again (basically just enough time for me to press and depress the button button). So I flip the switch on the back of the psu and turn it back on, and this time it powers up, but nothing would post on the screen. Fans, hard drive, cd drives, everything is up and running, but nothing is posting on screen or any hdd accessing noises indicating that it's booting into windows.
Eventually my friend suggested I maybe reseat the video card or try a different one, thinking I may have statically popped something. So I take my video card out and put it back in, powered it up, and whaddaya know everything works again.
I thought that the powering issue was because of unplugging/plugging the power cable to the hard drive, but later on I found out it happens anytime the computer gets powered down. As long as it's off and I try to turn it back on, I get the split second turn on/off. Then I proceed to go through the steps again and go through the "everything on but nothing posting" phase, and eventually the removing and replacing of the video card.
It's happened 3-4 times now and taking out and putting the video card back in works everytime.
Ok so long explanation out of the way...does anybody know wtf is going on? Is it the psu, video card, or mobo causing the problem? Here's what I have:
- Raidmax 630w modular psu (yea yea I know this might be it. I've had it for a year with naught a problem though until now)
- ECS KN1 SLi Lite Mobo
- XFX 8600gt (620MHz)
- Athlon 64 X2 4200 @ 2.2Ghz
- 2gb OCZ ram
- 1x Seagate 320gb; 1x WD 120gb
- DVD drive; CD drive
Everything is running at stock.
I'm thinking it's most likely the psu, but why would taking the vid card out and putting it back in fix it? The 8600gt is brand new so maybe it shouldn't be it? It was working for the first week or so when I put it in after all. I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but lately when I would power down my pc, for some reason Vista would just not shut down properly. It would get stuck at the "Shutting Down..." screen for at least 3 minutes and just would not shut down. Everytime I had to get goin so I just soft powered down via the power button.
Any help appreciated