Computer problem

[SpeedEng]

Any1 knows what wrong with my computer

When I press the power button I hear the computer starting up The led are flashing that fan moves and then after less than a second of being on nothing, no power to the system.
Im getting pissed and my warranty ran out

I hope I explaned it well

[spigidygak]

Check the connections inside of your computer. Make sure everything is secure. Also what type of comp is it?

[SpeedEng]

yup every thing is secured to my knowledge
Its a toshiba m500 server

[hapoo]

try holding down the power button for 3 seconds when you turn it on.

[SpeedEng]

Negative still no work

[redenergy]

Hey, 1 trick here, try take out some cables IDE's, and RAM also CPU and out back in again. Sometimes it did the trick, i have my old ABIT motherboard have the same problem too.

[SpeedEng]

im willing to try anything now befor i give it to a service rep. that will charge me big $$$

[evil-will]

heh ive seen your computer how about trying an axe :bash:

[LPMiller]

Originally posted by SpeedEng
Any1 knows what wrong with my computer

When I press the power button I hear the computer starting up The led are flashing that fan moves and then after less than a second of being on nothing, no power to the system.
Im getting pissed and my warranty ran out

I hope I explaned it well

I'm guessing 1 of 2 things:

1)bad power supply. It fires, but can't hold it's smoke, so to speak.

2)Motherboard is fried, and the power supply is shutting down for safety reasons.

[jd72]

Sounds like a short either on the motherboard or one of the drives... The power supply sees a short and switches the power supply off..

[Cheesypuff]

are you seeing a bootup menu? if you are...try using a windows startup disk and trying to fix like that

[SpeedEng]

Originally posted by evil-will
heh ive seen your computer how about trying an axe :bash:
Ill try your trick out if it still doesnt work, bring a camera

[SpeedEng]

Originally posted by Cheesypuff
are you seeing a bootup menu? if you are...try using a windows startup disk and trying to fix like that

I wish it even got that far. as soon as I turn the computer on it turns off

[jd72]

Yep... It's a short... Try unpluging everything except the processor, ram and video and see if it goes up to at least a ram count. If not, your motherboard more than likely has a dead short in it. Before trashing it, if you have more than one stick of ram in it, try the same thing with only one stck at a time. and still no go, try to find a friend with a comparable processor and try it. Also, if you have one of the older style socket 7 processor fans lying around, try plugging it in to the power supply by itself with the motherboard and everything else unplugged but the fan to see if the fan comes on and runs...

[SpeedEng]

I havent had time to do any of this, but thanks for the input
I got the can recently and Ive been job hunting

But please post more ill get to it!:D

[billxp]

Had a similar problem with a matrox vid card and had to d/l a boot disk from matrox to repair the video cards bios.

Try swapping the video card....... thats the ticket

[SpeedEng]

video cards can mess up the whole computer?

[SpeedEng]

Woo Hoo!!!
Thanks everyone It's alive again!