pc won't stay on

[Randy]

When I start my pc it won't stay on for very long and then turns off I am talking about seconds, and right before this happened the pc was going into safe mode. the pc starts for about 2 seconds and then turns off.

help help help

[mjc]

OK, system specs are in order.

Is this a fairly new machine? off the shelf or custom built? still under warranty?


Some motherboards have a safety feature to prevent damage to the CPU...they shut down immediately when the detect a fan failure, so the first place to check is to make sure that your fans are operating.

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[Randy]

before I got this reply I ended up changing the power supply because it was shorting out. So the Pc stays on but it still goes into the menu for loading option. Mormal, bootlogged,safe-mode,step by step, command prompt etc how do I get it from going into this menu option and straight to windows?

[mjc]

Run msconfig and under the troubleshooting tab uncheck the startup menu option.

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Celts are the men that heaven made mad, For all their battles are merry and their songs are all sad.

[Steve]

On my win98se machine, I don't have a troublshooting tab in msconfig? I use TweakUI and under the boot tab I can check or uncheck "Always show boot menu".


http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/redface.gif Heh heh, just found it! Thanks mjc.
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[This message has been edited by Steve (edited 05-10-2002).]