Re: Computer turns on and then just dies

On Sat, 11/23/2024 6:09 AM, s|b wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 15:58:30 -0500, Paul wrote:
> 
>> "flip the switch... standby power led on ASUS F1A75... stays on for a bit and then dies"
>>
>> The power supply consists of two halves.
> 
> It's a bit too technical for me, but I appreciate the response. I'd
> expect the PSU to either work or not. Is the behaviour that I'm
> experiencing possible with a broken PSU?
> 
> I'm going to replace the thermal paste of the CPU first and see what
> happens.
> 

Just change the PSU and retest :-)
I've done that a few times, as a first step.

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Never hurts to change thermal paste. Especially the hobby non-permanent kind.

Some of the paste materials are good enough to be permanently used.
The screened thick materials provided initially on heatsinks
can be quite good.

Hobby pastes vary in endurance. One (which I won't promote by
naming it), reacts with the metal in the CPU and the metal in the
heatsink. That's an example of a bad choice, as some people have
experienced (no warranty support when that damage is detected!).

Some of the others, are well designed pastes, with the right
kind of viscosity, but if you "abuse" the PC, by dropping or
kicking it, that affects the paste integrity (air ingress), and
re-pasting those is a good idea. Like, just handling the heavy
heatsink assembly, applying too much "torque" to it while working
on a PC, can affect it by a few degrees of performance. It's because
the huge heatsinks weigh so much, that this kind of thing happens.
A light heatsink has sufficient normal force to remain in contact.

   Paul