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Special Forums Hardware Desktop computer is only turning on for a few seconds Post 303022754 by cokedude on Thursday 6th of September 2018 08:31:49 AM

09-06-2018

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Originally Posted by RudiC

It would be helpful if you could post some data. Anything logged to screen after you press the power button? Any sequence of beeps? Is the POST (power on self test) executed correctly? Is the operating system boot sequence started? Is the system operating for a few seconds? Can you enter the BIOS to test for e.g. thermal problems?

With your vague description above, the only thing I could advise is go see the local wizard, buy some magic potion and pour it slowly but constanly into the power supply of your PC, murmuring some holy curses.

Nothing logs on my screen. Right now I am not getting any beeps. It does not make it to the post. It does not make it to the OS booting either. Right now I am not able to get into the bios. It has randomly let me get into the bios. The CPU was 150 fahrenheit and the rest of the computer was 100 fahrenheit.

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acpi

ACPI(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   ACPI(1)

NAME

       acpi - Shows battery status information

SYNOPSIS

       acpi [options]

DESCRIPTION

       acpi Shows information from the /proc filesystem, such as battery status or thermal information.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

OPTIONS

       -b | --battery
		 show battery information

       -B | --without-battery
		 suppress battery information

       -t |  --thermal
		 show thermal information

       -T | --without-thermal
		 suppress thermal information

       -a | --ac-adapter
		 show ac adapter information

       -A | --without-ac-adapter
		 suppress ac-adapter information

       -V | --everything
		 show every device, overrides above options

       -s | --show-empty
		 show non-operational devices

       -S | --hide-empty
		 hide non-operational devices

       -c | --celcius
		 use celcius as the temperature unit

       -f | --fahrenheit
		 use fahrenheit as the temperature unit

       -k | --kelvin
		 use kelvin as the temperature unit

       -d | --directory <dir>
		 path to ACPI info (/proc/acpi)

       -h | --help
		 display help and exit

       -v | --version
		 output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       This  manual page was written by Paul Telford <pxt@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to
       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU GPL.

																	   ACPI(1)