I'm stuck in the dreaded continuous-boot cycle some pc's experience. I turn on the PC - the power button lights, all the fans come on, MB, GFX, PSU, etc. Lights on the MOBO as well. Everything seems normal then 2.5 seconds later it shuts down, only to continuously attempt.
I bought this refurbished Dell XPS 6 months ago and upgraded the PSU to a Corsair CX600 Builder's series. The GFX to a Radeon 6850. I added 8GB G-Skill Memory. The stock HD is 1TB, stock CDRW.
For 6 months, Everything has been perfect. Not a problem to dream of. Quiet, smooth, great framerates in games. Only 1 BSOD I can remember. No lockups aside from that.
I come to turn on the PC yesterday morning and all of a sudden there is this problem. After a couple boot attempts I felt like I smelled something - like a fuse burning almost. I shut it down and opened it up. I found a small receptacle at the end of a black wire which had fallen off and exposed what looks like copper. the wire seemed burned which would explain the smell. I traced this wire back and followed it to what appears to go up the top of the case toward the area of the power button. It's not in the regular harness cluster which leads to the F_Panel on the MB. It' s just a black wire which leads seemingly from the same place, down past the PSU and splits into two wires(one b one w), which both had this receptacle, or stopper at the end of each. It just hangs there above the CPU fan like some kind of end of some circuit, IDK.
Anyways, I used a crimper and tried to put the metal piece at the end back on the black wire, and sealed it with some elec. tape but no difference.
I'm wondering if my PSU punked out or if this little short is the cause of my problem.