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Old 01-07-2009, 08:10 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by heyal256 View Post
I've had that happen to me on new builds. Sometimes if the motherboard is shorting itself on the case (standoffs maybe out of place causing a short) would cause the PS to automatically shut itself down to prevent damage to other components. Reseating the mobo and the rest of the components should help (sometimes just loosinging and re-tightining screws is all that is needed.
I had this happen to me on the first computer I built. An easy solution to eliminate this as a possibility is to put electrical tape over all of the exposed screw heads on the interior of the case.
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