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Windows 10 cycles on and off

After powering down it will cycle on and and off. the cpu fan, case fan and power button all come on for about 1 second. It happens every 11 minutes. I replace the power supply, ram and reseated the graphics card, removed the cmos battery. still does it. If I put it in sleep mode it does not do it. I assume it is something in windows since it happens on a regular basis. I went through the bios and power management did not see anything that was out of the ordinary. But maybe I am missing something. These were just parts that I had from previous systems and everything was working before.

CPU  Q9550

 MOBO Intel DQ45CB

 8 GIG CORSAIR RAM

PNY 4GIG VIDEO CARD

ANTEC 600 WATT PSU 

WINDOWS 10 HOME ON CRUCIAL SSD

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Hi Ronald

I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this . . .

If this is a Windows issue, try this setting to see if that behavior stops . . .

Open the old Control Panel (click your Start Button, then just type control and press Enter)

At the top right of Control Panel, set view to icons

Choose Power Options

On the left, click 'Choose what the power buttons do'

At the top right, click 'Change settings that are currently unavailable'

Under 'Shutdown settings' disable 'Turn on fast startup'

Save that and close Control Panel

Restart (not shut down0 your PC to apply that setting . . .
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Will try tonight when I get home from work

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Okay Ronald, please let me know how you get on . . .
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motherboard is 11 years old 

so the solder "traces", are thin and when mobo warm/hot, it flexes enough to cause a brake and so a restart

I have had a similar problem with a dual bios mobo, "trace" broken and would restart and re-flash the bios

This may be your problem

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ok so windows did not like that. I hit restart and it started but I got no monitor, mouse, or keyboard. I used the power button to power down and tried to start up several times but got the same thing. Just black screen, no mouse and keyboard. Is there a way to get this to boot in safe mode so I can go back in and recheck that box. it is still cycling on and off so it did not fix the problem.

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Hi Kevin, this is only power cycling after it is powered down and does it every 11 minutes until I turn the psu off.It is fine while running and cpu running at 135f so not really hot.

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Hi Ronald

Changing that setting should have had no bad affect on your PC or Windows . . .

Turn off your PC

Disconnect from the mains electricity and remove the CMOS battery

Press and hold the Power Button on your PC for 30 seconds

Wait 10 minutes

Re-insert the CMOS battery and connect back to the mains

Start your PC, does Windows attempt to boot?
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yes it booted, should I go back in and recheck that box since it did not fix the cycling issue?

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Hi Ronald

Yes, if that did not fix the power cycling, then revert that setting to its original setting . . .

Then, go to the support page for that motherboard, and check for any available BIOS updates and also a chipset device driver . . .
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ok will do. I did all the driver updates but have not checked the bios yet.

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