Ictinike Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Hi everyone, I've been building my own computer (My first time) and had it all built together, and it went to bios on first boot, so i did that and shut it down to clean up some wires. Then I cleaned up some wires, and my computer stopped booting correctly, it would boot for 3-8 seconds, just enough to do POST, then reboot itself. I tried clearing the CMOS, didn't work. I then got curious about something and had to pretty much disassemble the entire rig to get at the part I was curious about, so that led me to simply rebuilt it all. It still had the problem. I gave a call to ASUS (My Mobo Manufacturers) and they said to clear the cmos, so I did. It then booted, and was fine. At this point my computer was upstairs in a room with no monitors or anything, so I unplugged it and took it downstairs to my monitor. Once it got there it was doing the rebooting thing again. So I cleared the CMOS again, no luck. Then I thought "Maybe it's my powerbar down here" so I brought the computer back upstairs and plugged it in, it's doing it's rebooting thing up here now. Is it posible my CPU heatsink isn't on right? but then it wouldn't be booting at all.... Help, please. -.- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119514-help-computer-rebooting-after-10-seconds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickhe Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 -v and see where it restarts Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119514-help-computer-rebooting-after-10-seconds/#findComment-846919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
verdant Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Hi everyone,I've been building my own computer (My first time) and had it all built together, and it went to bios on first boot, so i did that and shut it down to clean up some wires. Then I cleaned up some wires, and my computer stopped booting correctly, it would boot for 3-8 seconds, just enough to do POST, then reboot itself. I tried clearing the CMOS, didn't work. I then got curious about something and had to pretty much disassemble the entire rig to get at the part I was curious about, so that led me to simply rebuilt it all. It still had the problem. I gave a call to ASUS (My Mobo Manufacturers) and they said to clear the cmos, so I did. It then booted, and was fine. At this point my computer was upstairs in a room with no monitors or anything, so I unplugged it and took it downstairs to my monitor. Once it got there it was doing the rebooting thing again. So I cleared the CMOS again, no luck. Then I thought "Maybe it's my powerbar down here" so I brought the computer back upstairs and plugged it in, it's doing it's rebooting thing up here now. Is it posible my CPU heatsink isn't on right? but then it wouldn't be booting at all.... Help, please. -.- I suggest that you first check that all cables connectors are firmly and correctly seated.....especially the ones that you did not tidy up!......as it sounds like a loose connector(s) somewhere that is/are intermittently connecting.......as regards CPU heatskink check that it is firmly seated too and also your RAM modules and graphics card...... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/119514-help-computer-rebooting-after-10-seconds/#findComment-846952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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