ANother tech. problem!

[Supervisor]

hi!
bought a new PC (it was used already) and tried to start it!
no sound, it just runs for about 5 seconds and shuts down afterwards!
i got a amd athlon 3200+ (barton)
350W power supply
ati radeaon 9550
1GB ram
MSI Mainboard (dont know exactly what mainboard, too tired to look it up, but ill edit the information tomorrow)!
80GB hitachi HDD

what could be sources of the problem when there is no sound in the beginning?
normally theres a little "beep" at the beginning, isnt it?

i just ask becaus i dont want to touch everthing when the reason of my problem are 4 expample the RAM only!

sorry for low level english, im too tired today :D!

thx for all hints and helping information!

thx, cu, Super

[Karamas]

thats not enough info for anybody to tell u much of anything. What does it do anything specific...just saying it doesnt start and works for about 5 secs means nothing and alot of problems caould cause that.

[Supervisor]

kay, i press the startbutton, then coolers and everything starts to work, 1 sek, 2 sek, 3 sek, screen starts (from standby mode), click, everthing turns off!

i unplugged screen, it also turns off!

hopefully thats enough! i go to bed now, thx 4 reply!
ill have a look in here tomorrow mornig!

[bruins004]

It could be a lot of things.
What kind of PSU is it?
Maybe its not getting enough power on the 12V rail.
Happens a lot of times if it isnt a good PSU.

[djbbenn]

http://forums.techpowerup.com/announcement.php?f=14

[Poisonsnak]

hehe yeah that title is super

re-check your heatsink installation, it is probably overheating and shutting down for safety. A friend of mine had his heastink on backwards and it produced identical symptoms.

[Karamas]

Thats sound like your psu is going out and has almost gone if you have an extra replace it and see if it makes a differece this way you know wheter or not it is or isnt.

[DR.Death]

when you got it was it formated or just cleend of of the software he did not want you to have because in that case it could be a virus

[Supervisor]

i'm sorry 4 poor thread-title!
hmm, i had a look at some components of the pc now, and i saw that 2 pins of the ram are burnt :(

hmm, so rams have been destroyed and also the ram slot shows up a litte burning marks (i think they were put in 180° switched (because of the bruning marks))!!
(possible to repair them, or are they gone 4 ever?)
whats with the mainboard? only the slot destroyed or everything?

i removed ram and pc "beeps" 3 times, but it also shuts down again afterwards!

ill try to get another PSU 4 testing (mine is a 350W from LC-Power)!

and, whats the heatsink installation? its the cooling system, isnt it?
i think that works fine, all the coolers work!

mfg Super

[DR.Death]

that could mean some one shorted out your board because ram can only go one way

[Supervisor]

thx 4 replys!
other components (cpu, graphics-card, hdd,...) are okay or can they also be destroyed?

[Poisonsnak]

You should only have to replace the motherboard and the ram, nothing else was involved really.