Guest kleefarr Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Hi, For a while now my brother in laws PC has been POSTing over and over for about five minutes and then finally boots with very thing running fine. As I was down at his today I decided to check a couple of things. First I checked the Motherboard CMOS battery. It's fine reading 3.16v I also checked other voltages and they are as follows.. Purple - 5.04 Green - 0.04 starts on checking Orange - OFF 0.26v / ON 3.34v Red - OFF 0v / ON 4.97v Yellow - OFF 0.03v / ON 12.18v Then connected Green/ BLack and checked readings of above. ALL READINGS THE SAME VOLTAGE AS ABOVE. Grey/ Black 2.95v Grey/Black Current (Setting 200ma) reads 6.3 The Green voltage doesn't look good from what I understand, but I am only just getting into the voltage section of PCs. There is a clicking sound coming from the CPU area, this kept happening while it was repeating the POST but stopped once system was up and running ok. I gave everything a good clear out while is was in there, loads of dust. Having just put everything back together it is now NOT POSTING, at least it doesn't sound like it, but I'm not to sure as there is no video now. Everything is connected properly so I'm thinking that what ever it was was just hanging on and has now completely been screwed by me doing the tests and the cleaning. It can either be one of three things I would have thought. 1. Power supply 2. Motherboard 3. Processor Any input gratefully recieved. Kevin
Guest Maincat Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: Fully updated XP home POST problem "kleefarr" <kleefarr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D596CDC8-EF2F-460D-9D72-FF5BD29FD549@microsoft.com... > Hi, > > For a while now my brother in laws PC has been POSTing over and over for > about five minutes and then finally boots with very thing running fine. > > As I was down at his today I decided to check a couple of things. > First I checked the Motherboard CMOS battery. It's fine reading 3.16v > I also checked other voltages and they are as follows.. > > Purple - 5.04 > Green - 0.04 starts on checking > Orange - OFF 0.26v / ON 3.34v > Red - OFF 0v / ON 4.97v > Yellow - OFF 0.03v / ON 12.18v > > Then connected Green/ BLack and checked readings of above. ALL READINGS > THE > SAME VOLTAGE AS ABOVE. > > Grey/ Black 2.95v > Grey/Black Current (Setting 200ma) reads 6.3 > > The Green voltage doesn't look good from what I understand, but I am only > just getting into the voltage section of PCs. > > There is a clicking sound coming from the CPU area, this kept happening > while it was repeating the POST but stopped once system was up and running > ok. > > I gave everything a good clear out while is was in there, loads of dust. > Having just put everything back together it is now NOT POSTING, at least > it > doesn't sound like it, but I'm not to sure as there is no video now. > Everything is connected properly so I'm thinking that what ever it was was > just hanging on and has now completely been screwed by me doing the tests > and > the cleaning. > > It can either be one of three things I would have thought. > 1. Power supply > 2. Motherboard > 3. Processor > > Any input gratefully recieved. > > Kevin Also check the video card and the memory is seated properly.
Guest kleefarr Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: Fully updated XP home POST problem Ok, I have swapped the psu, no change. Removed and reseated Video card and memory. No change. So I guess that only leaves the Motherboard and the CPU. Kevin "Maincat" wrote: > > "kleefarr" <kleefarr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:D596CDC8-EF2F-460D-9D72-FF5BD29FD549@microsoft.com... > > Hi, > > > > For a while now my brother in laws PC has been POSTing over and over for > > about five minutes and then finally boots with very thing running fine. > > > > As I was down at his today I decided to check a couple of things. > > First I checked the Motherboard CMOS battery. It's fine reading 3.16v > > I also checked other voltages and they are as follows.. > > > > Purple - 5.04 > > Green - 0.04 starts on checking > > Orange - OFF 0.26v / ON 3.34v > > Red - OFF 0v / ON 4.97v > > Yellow - OFF 0.03v / ON 12.18v > > > > Then connected Green/ BLack and checked readings of above. ALL READINGS > > THE > > SAME VOLTAGE AS ABOVE. > > > > Grey/ Black 2.95v > > Grey/Black Current (Setting 200ma) reads 6.3 > > > > The Green voltage doesn't look good from what I understand, but I am only > > just getting into the voltage section of PCs. > > > > There is a clicking sound coming from the CPU area, this kept happening > > while it was repeating the POST but stopped once system was up and running > > ok. > > > > I gave everything a good clear out while is was in there, loads of dust. > > Having just put everything back together it is now NOT POSTING, at least > > it > > doesn't sound like it, but I'm not to sure as there is no video now. > > Everything is connected properly so I'm thinking that what ever it was was > > just hanging on and has now completely been screwed by me doing the tests > > and > > the cleaning. > > > > It can either be one of three things I would have thought. > > 1. Power supply > > 2. Motherboard > > 3. Processor > > > > Any input gratefully recieved. > > > > Kevin > > Also check the video card and the memory is seated properly. > > >
Guest kleefarr Posted September 10, 2007 Posted September 10, 2007 RE: Fully updated XP home POST problem Went for an upgrade option. Mobo, CPU and RAM. "kleefarr" wrote: > Hi, > > For a while now my brother in laws PC has been POSTing over and over for > about five minutes and then finally boots with very thing running fine. > > As I was down at his today I decided to check a couple of things. > First I checked the Motherboard CMOS battery. It's fine reading 3.16v > I also checked other voltages and they are as follows.. > > Purple - 5.04 > Green - 0.04 starts on checking > Orange - OFF 0.26v / ON 3.34v > Red - OFF 0v / ON 4.97v > Yellow - OFF 0.03v / ON 12.18v > > Then connected Green/ BLack and checked readings of above. ALL READINGS THE > SAME VOLTAGE AS ABOVE. > > Grey/ Black 2.95v > Grey/Black Current (Setting 200ma) reads 6.3 > > The Green voltage doesn't look good from what I understand, but I am only > just getting into the voltage section of PCs. > > There is a clicking sound coming from the CPU area, this kept happening > while it was repeating the POST but stopped once system was up and running ok. > > I gave everything a good clear out while is was in there, loads of dust. > Having just put everything back together it is now NOT POSTING, at least it > doesn't sound like it, but I'm not to sure as there is no video now. > Everything is connected properly so I'm thinking that what ever it was was > just hanging on and has now completely been screwed by me doing the tests and > the cleaning. > > It can either be one of three things I would have thought. > 1. Power supply > 2. Motherboard > 3. Processor > > Any input gratefully recieved. > > Kevin
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