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Take out the battery, plug it in, and then try to turn it on

Yeah, tons. I've tried switching out everything, it might be the motherboard though.

Hmm. What a pain. I guess I will just have to live with it.

Ran and got a new CMOS battery, didn't do it. Strange strange problem. It even does it when I take the motherboard out, and put it on a piece of cardboard.

Well for me, when this has happened, it usually just something stupid like my memory isn't plugged in all the way.

What it could be more likely is that if you seated your motherboard yourself, you...

Hmm, nope didn't help.

Its only a 1GHZ machine, without many peripherals, so it doesn't use much power at all.

I put in my Fortron 550W Active PFC PSU, and still had the same problem.

Thanks...

So this is a completely different computer first off.

When I press the power button, everything powers up, but the computer does not post, or beep. If you leave the computer on for like 10...

OMG, check it out, it was the KEYBOARD. I plugged it in upstairs, and it worked just fine, and I was trying to make it crash, but I didn't know how to make it crash... and I was like "hmm, could it...

Hmm, I will take a look into that. Where does it plug into? Any USB port? Or a specific port?

Hey, thanks for replying so quickly. Here are the specs

CPU: AMD 64 3200+ (socket 754)
Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo Platinum (Rev. 1)
Memory: Corsair 1GB PC3200 (1 Stick)
Video: Rosewill Radeon...

So I have this computer. It worked just fine for a while. But now it starts up, boots up into Windows just fine. After about 2 minutes or so, the computer will just randomly turn off.

The power...