Ok, I something for you...v PW acting weird

[camarogod93]

Ok, so...I have this PC thats acting up. When ever I turn it off (start - shut down - turn off) Everything goes as it should. Except for the very last bit. You know, when you hear the HDD park and normally everything goes quite..only instead of going quite, the PS fan goes into hyperdrive and doesn't fully turn off.

What I've done/seen/from what I can tell

I dont see any blown caps on the mobo
the HDD is good
Fresh install of xp pro sp2 (did the same thing with vista on it)
I've pulled everything from the mono (daughter cards, peripherals. Just mobo and PS)
I've also tried another PS and PC didn't even fire up.
Its an HP GX627AA

Base processor

Athlon 64 X2 (W) 5200+ 2.6 GHz (65W)

• 2000 MT/s (mega transfers/second)
• Socket AM2

Chipset
GeForce 6150SE nForce 430

Motherboard

• Manufacturer: ECS
• Motherboard Name: MCP61PM-HM
• HP/Compaq motherboard name: Nettle2-GL8E

If I've left anything out, let me know and I'll be glad to answer what I can





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[eriku]

hi there CAMAROGOD,
nice seeing you among us still

well let me get this right: you said that when th PC turns off the PSU fan does not?
still gets blowing off heat?

that is a normal thing in some "new" PSU's that is a cool feature even if you got your Rig complete off until the heat sensor says it is enough.

What is your actual PSU?
For how long stays on?

TY
eriku

[Patriot]

Google was little help on this one lol... but the general conscientious would be a bad psu....

unfortunately... while psu testers do exist... if they look bad on the tester they are bad.... if they look good.... they may still be bad lol...

only way to know for sure is to swap it out.

[jebo_4jc]

Yea I think Eriku might be on to something.

If the fan turns off after a while, that's a normal behavior. It's just trying to cool itself down before shutting off all the way.

If the fan stays on forever, though, then you probably just have a PSU with a bad fan switch or something.

[eriku]

yep, mine does it.

it is a odd-new-amazing feature for cool internal PSU "things" after complete shut down process

[camarogod93]

hi there CAMAROGOD,
nice seeing you among us still

well let me get this right: you said that when th PC turns off the PSU fan does not?
still gets blowing off heat?

that is a normal thing in some "new" PSU's that is a cool feature even if you got your Rig complete off until the heat sensor says it is enough.

What is your actual PSU?
For how long stays on?

TY
eriku

Thanks man. Yeah, this place seems pretty chill .

There is no heat to speak of. I have the side and front of the case off and i keep it pretty cool in my house. I dont smoke (in the house) and there are no blankets or cats in or around the computer.

I thought that it might be some kind of temp sensor, if so...its broken, because this thing will NEVER turn off. And I meant to look at hte psu last night but I never got around to it. (i know lol missing some key information here....)

[camarogod93]

Google was little help on this one lol... but the general conscientious would be a bad psu....

unfortunately... while psu testers do exist... if they look bad on the tester they are bad.... if they look good.... they may still be bad lol...

only way to know for sure is to swap it out.

Its been a while since I did this...and I wanna say that the new PSU (known good) that i put in didn't even turn the pc on...weird

[Patriot]

Its been a while since I did this...and I wanna say that the new PSU (known good) that i put in didn't even turn the pc on...weird

lol interesting... we have noticed that before here... some psu's and motherboards just don't agree with each other... but they work fine in other systems.

[eriku]

Still waitng for the specific PSU model please !

[camarogod93]

Still waitng for the specific PSU model please !

:lol: sorry I'm at work atm and the computer is at home. As soon as I get a tick, I'll have a look see and post up.