Boot problems

Jaridan

Jaridan

Jaridan

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My system has recently started having problems when turing it on.
At first this was intermittent and only happened maybe 3 times in the past year.
Basically when i switch the system on i no longer get and POST screen and nothing happens on my monitor it just stays in standby mode.
Everything seems fine on my motherboard and all fans are working, the hard drive light stays active on the front of the tower for a while then stops.
i have tried a different graphics card and both the standard and digital cables for my monitor. im not sure what else to try, does anyone have any suggestions or had similar problems?
My system is resonably old by todays standards but has not given me any trouble untill now.

P4 3.2 pentium 4
2 Gb matched corsair RAM
120Gb samsung spin point HDD
120Gb Maxtor HDD
Xfx 6800 GT 256mb Gpu
creative Audigy soundcard
Antec true power 430w psu
 
Yeah was reading your thread earlier.. its a real bugger! I've never had any problems with this build before but it's age is making me think something is maybe on the way out through use. I've tried two different cables both the digital and d sub ones and tested the monitor on my laptop to rule that out..
Next thing on the list is a complete strip down, maybe i'll find a loose connection or something..
 
I've had these problems in the past with a 12 month old intel 865 mobo. Like you it started occasionally not firing up the monitor although I could hear windoze start up and initially I could get it going again by unplugging the psu from the wall for a while.
I spent ages trying to trace what was wrong, upgrading the psu in case the agp card wasn't getting enough power, changing cables, cutting down to just the one hard drive, putting devices on their own molex.
Eventually came the day when no amount of playing around would get me any display. The particular intel board I had came with onboard gfx which was disabled simply by inserting an agp card in the slot. I took out my agp card and tried the onboard gfx.....nothing.
I rma'd the mobo to the E place I cant mention and it was confirmed faulty.
Thanks to intels 3 year warranty a new board arrived a week later, I'm still using it 2 years later, the fault never re-occurred.
My opinion on your problem?....faulty mobo, sorry.
 
Im starting to think it may be the mobo as well, i took the entire system apart even tim cleaned the cpu and reapplied some artic silver. put everything together and low and behold it booted! uninstalled a program had to reboot and yet again no visuals on the monitor!
I have left the system running for about half an hour and what do ya know, its booted up again?
weird..
 
Oh bugger, I really can't be bothered to RMA my mobo! It's an Asus pw5 dh deluxe bought from OCUK. What's the process for sending it back? Is it even under warranty?!

EDIT: Btw, my PC is overclocked, but not by much. Could that be the issue?!
 
Dodge777 said:
Oh bugger, I really can't be bothered to RMA my mobo! It's an Asus pw5 dh deluxe bought from OCUK. What's the process for sending it back? Is it even under warranty?!

EDIT: Btw, my PC is overclocked, but not by much. Could that be the issue?!
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Clear the CMOS and see, if you have PC issues on a system that's overclocked the first thing to do is remove the OC from the equation.... ;)
 
It just seems so weird though. Why should the simple act of unplugging the power cable for a minute and then plugging it back in suddely make the monitor not go into power save when booting up? I mean, when in Windows, I have no problems whatsoever. So I just can't see how it could be a hardware failure.

Should I try updating the bios? Btw, I haven't done this in a while. Will it keep the overclock if I do? Or will it go back to it's original clock?
 
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