HI All,
I recently unpacked my PC from a year in storage, and I’m having some issues with it.
Upon connecting it all up it doesn’t boot, so I took it all apart and refitted all the parts. It started working, great I thought. However, after that first time of actually getting to boot, it seems every subsequent restart or boot doesn’t work first time.
It usually takes three goes to get it to book and do the POST. This involves me wiggling the connection between the monitor and the graphics card until the POST screen works.
I initially thought it was a graphics card problem, because of me wiggling the card, however, when I power on, the Num Lock on the keyboard does not light up, (which it usually does as soon as you power on.). So this makes me thing its something else that’s wrong.I should point out that the fans turn on and sounds like its doing something but no signal to the monitor, and it powers up for about 2 seconds, then restarts, then powers up again and stays on but no screen input and no keyboard lights.
I have to turn it off from the mains and then try and power it on 3 more times like this until it "usually" POST's.
At the moment I experience no crashes or any performance issues once its all booted up and logged on to windows. I used 3dmark last night to stress the card and CPU and there was nothing untoward.
I’m at a bit of a loss, and wondered whether anyone could offer any assistance?
My spec is:
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultra 64bit
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS)
Antec P182 Special Edition Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Mirror Finish)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800EB2GK)
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Tuniq tower
Thanks
I recently unpacked my PC from a year in storage, and I’m having some issues with it.
Upon connecting it all up it doesn’t boot, so I took it all apart and refitted all the parts. It started working, great I thought. However, after that first time of actually getting to boot, it seems every subsequent restart or boot doesn’t work first time.
It usually takes three goes to get it to book and do the POST. This involves me wiggling the connection between the monitor and the graphics card until the POST screen works.
I initially thought it was a graphics card problem, because of me wiggling the card, however, when I power on, the Num Lock on the keyboard does not light up, (which it usually does as soon as you power on.). So this makes me thing its something else that’s wrong.I should point out that the fans turn on and sounds like its doing something but no signal to the monitor, and it powers up for about 2 seconds, then restarts, then powers up again and stays on but no screen input and no keyboard lights.
I have to turn it off from the mains and then try and power it on 3 more times like this until it "usually" POST's.
At the moment I experience no crashes or any performance issues once its all booted up and logged on to windows. I used 3dmark last night to stress the card and CPU and there was nothing untoward.
I’m at a bit of a loss, and wondered whether anyone could offer any assistance?
My spec is:
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultra 64bit
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST3500320AS)
Antec P182 Special Edition Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Mirror Finish)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800EB2GK)
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Tuniq tower
Thanks
See here to see how I resolved it