Pc shuts down after few seconds of starting

[Lowmemory]

When pc powers on, all fans and led lights are running as normal then shuts off after a few seconds then it powers on by itself and shuts off again. It keeps doing this until i turn the power supply off. This happens after i applied new thermal paste on the cpu.

[Bruce]

any chance the power button is stuck in?
laptop or desktop?

you put all the cables back the way they were?
no lose connectors?
no thermal paste dripping out from the heatsink?

[Lowmemory]

any chance the power button is stuck in?
laptop or desktop?

you put all the cables back the way they were?
no lose connectors?
no thermal paste dripping out from the heatsink?

Power button looks good, not stuck. I checked everything and all the wires are connected where they should. I also tested it with a working power supply and it still happening so its not the power supply. Does adding too much thermal paste a bad thing? I applied a good pea size amount, not too much and not too little. i used alcohol wipe to cleaned the dusts and also use the wipes to get rid of the old paste.

[Lowmemory]

This is a desktop

[Lowmemory]

The paste covered just enough of the cpu surface, not dripping outside. Maybe i fried my motherboard?

[Bruce]

if there is no paste oozing out the side, then you used the right amount.
and it was all working fine before the paste was renewed?

in the off chance it is the power button on the case, remove the cable for the PWR SW from the front panel header on the motherboard. once removed, those two pins can be shorted out with a screwdriver (or whatever) to get the PC started.
if it still switches off, it ain’t the power button.
and i would pull it all apart, and reassemble on a flat surface somewhere for further testing.

[Lowmemory]

I can finally see the displays on the screen and got to the windows log in after i removed 2 of the rams out and just having two in (4 total rams) Not sure why it works but if you know why, let me know, thanks.

[Bruce]

either faulty RAM or more likely they need a clean, both the motherboard slot they go in and their actual circuitry. use a soft bristled brush and wipe both of those areas, reseat the RAM and see how it goes.

[Lowmemory]

Ok so i cleaned the ram slots with a toothbrush, pc having no issue

either faulty RAM or more likely they need a clean, both the motherboard slot they go in and their actual circuitry. use a soft bristled brush and wipe both of those areas, reseat the RAM and see how it goe

either faulty RAM or more likely they need a clean, both the motherboard slot they go in and their actual circuitry. use a soft bristled brush and wipe both of those areas, reseat the RAM and see how it goes.

I cleaned them slots and when i put 4 rams in those 4 slots, i get a boot loop. If i removed the ram from the first slot, it works . Turned pc off and put the ram from the second slot into the first slot, it works also (rams are in slot 1, 3 and 4) if i put the ram from either slot 3 or 4 into slot 2 while one of the slor is empty, it works (rams in slot 1, 2, 3 or 1, 2, 4) i think it only does the boot loop if i put all 4 in all 4 slots. Not sure whats causing this.

[Bruce]

each memory slot has a controller chip.
so you are either looking at a dead slot or a dead memory chip.

[Lowmemory]

each memory slot has a controller chip.
so you are either looking at a dead slot or a dead memory chip.

Will try to test with new ones and see if that solves the problem

[Lowmemory]

Now my pc is reading each of my 8gb ram as 2gb and i already tried most of the methods. Jumping jbat1, took battery out, unplugged and turned off power supply and connectors that connects to the power supply. Waited 10 minutes, plugged connectors in, puy battery in, starts pc and still reading as 2gb each.

[Lowmemory]

Also tried

Now my pc is reading each of my 8gb ram as 2gb and i already tried most of the methods. Jumping jbat1, took battery out, unplugged and turned off power supply and connectors that connects to the power supply. Waited 10 minutes, plugged connectors in, puy battery in, starts pc and still reading as 2gb each.

Also tried going into msconfig, under boot, advance setting. Unchecked max memory and applied, save and restart. Same result.

[Bruce]

so you have 4 x 2GB sticks and they are all working now?

[Lowmemory]

so you have 4 x 2GB sticks and they are all working now?

I have 4x 8gb sticks and pc reading them as 2gb each.