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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Simon on December 28, 2003, 11:24

Title: Boot Problem
Post by: Simon on December 28, 2003, 11:24

The PC I recently built for my cousin has developed a fault.  When she powers up, sometimes there is no beep, no monitor, no nothing, although the power is obviously there as the fans are all running.  She then hits the reset button, and everything boots up OK.  This started happening on odd occasions, but apparently it is starting to increase in frequency.  Any ideas?  I thought initially this was just the monitor not firing up, but now it seems it's more than  that.  Would going into the BIOS and disabling Quick Boot (if it's enabled) have any effect?

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: chorleydave on December 28, 2003, 13:58

I'm no expert, but has she checked that the motherboard battery is seated properly, Simon?

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: jon996 on December 28, 2003, 14:17

i had a similar problem and it was a ram fault, have you tryed switching them around???

--jon :)

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: Adept on December 28, 2003, 16:07

I'd get your cousin to send the whole thing back to the manufacturer and demand their money back Simon. There are a lot of cowboy PC-builders around these days you know :P

Disabling quick boot won't make any difference, although, as Jon says, it may possibly show up a memory fault.

Try removing all of the PCI cards and memory sticks and re-seat them. If this doesn't cure it, try re-seating the processor.

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: Tony on December 28, 2003, 16:26

Quote from: Adept on December 28, 2003, 16:07

I'd get your cousin to send the whole thing back to the manufacturer and demand their money back Simon. There are a lot of cowboy PC-builders around these days you know :P

Ref, Ref....you blind or summat...that was way below the belt  :heehee:..... Mind you, had this prob at the beginning, and now rearing its ugly head again...smacks of a loose something to me.

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: Simon on December 28, 2003, 16:30

OK, thanks guys.   ;)

Jon, there's no 'them' to switch around.  It just has one stick of 512Mb 2700 DDR.

Dave, hmmm...  :-\  

Sean, I'll try that next time I go to visit.  Can anyone explain why this might be happening, but only on a first boot?  An immediate restart rectifies the issue, and there are no other problems.

Oh, and  :chubby:  (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apax34.dsl.pipex.com%2Fsmileys%2Fheehee1.gif&hash=4cedfc4d873e04d55bdbc11d35d26a65d327e957)

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: jon996 on December 28, 2003, 16:32

and how was i spost 2 no that??!?! ???:heehee:

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: Simon on December 28, 2003, 16:34

Quote from: jon996 on December 28, 2003, 16:32

and how was i spost 2 no that??!?! ???:heehee:

You didn't ask!  :lol:

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: jon996 on December 28, 2003, 16:35

;) ok ok fair enufff :bald:

Title: Re:Boot Problem
Post by: Adept on December 28, 2003, 16:43

Quote from: Simon on December 28, 2003, 16:30

Sean, I'll try that next time I go to visit.  Can anyone explain why this might be happening, but only on a first boot?  An immediate restart rectifies the issue, and there are no other problems.

It may well be a bad connection in that case. As the PC warms up, the components expand and "make" the connection properly.