HELP needed with sons PC

[Eldukerino]

Hi all,

I've been spending most of this morning trying to clue my way around the sudden non-working of my Sons Packard Bell PC. I power the machine on and it starts to boot up but simply cuts out power after 15-20 seconds. I've tried pressing the function keys and boot it up manually but to no avail.

It also turns off almost immediately after turning it on unless I leave it for 5 mins.

A guy wanted to charge me £40.00 for an evaluation of the cost of repair...does the problem sound familiar to anyone else out there or could someone help?

 

[townsbg]

Best case scenario is that it's overheating. You need to get a can of compressed air and blow out all of the fans especially the one on the heatsink. Follow these steps on cleaning out a pc: Cleaning the Interior of your PC

The steps for preventing static discharge are important. I lost a floppy drive to that. Thankfully that's all I lost.

 

[Eldukerino]

Thanks townsbg...the fan was pretty clogged up, but found out it was a broken power pack.

Duke out!