Howdy,
I should start by saying that I have fixed the problem I'm about to explain. I just want to know what might have caused it if anyone can figure it out!
Ok...so...specs are in my sig except the motherboard which is a Gigabyte Z68AP-D3.
For the last couple of days I thought I'd noticed the computer rebooting once whenever I turned it on. It would power on for less than a second, then reboot and load properly and give me hours of trouble free use. I wasn't sure at the time as it happened so fast and my PC is quite quiet. Obviously it must have been doing this and it wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
So then today I decided to put the PC to sleep rather than shut down. I put it to sleep and came back a few hours later - pressed a few keys and it sprung into life....then rebooted.
It then rebooted in an endless cycle until I turned the power supply off. It would have just kept doing this forever if id allowed it.
After fiddling with a few things I cleared the cmos using a screwdriver on the pins....and it power on!
But now it wouldnt boot into windows. After more messing around the Windows installation disk told it was a startup error which it couldn't fix. I ended up having to format and reinstall windows.
The PC is now working fine. I'd just like to know what happened? Or was it just one of those strange things that sometimes happens for no reason whatsoever other than to ruin your day?
lol
I should start by saying that I have fixed the problem I'm about to explain. I just want to know what might have caused it if anyone can figure it out!
Ok...so...specs are in my sig except the motherboard which is a Gigabyte Z68AP-D3.
For the last couple of days I thought I'd noticed the computer rebooting once whenever I turned it on. It would power on for less than a second, then reboot and load properly and give me hours of trouble free use. I wasn't sure at the time as it happened so fast and my PC is quite quiet. Obviously it must have been doing this and it wasn't just a figment of my imagination.
So then today I decided to put the PC to sleep rather than shut down. I put it to sleep and came back a few hours later - pressed a few keys and it sprung into life....then rebooted.
It then rebooted in an endless cycle until I turned the power supply off. It would have just kept doing this forever if id allowed it.
After fiddling with a few things I cleared the cmos using a screwdriver on the pins....and it power on!
But now it wouldnt boot into windows. After more messing around the Windows installation disk told it was a startup error which it couldn't fix. I ended up having to format and reinstall windows.
The PC is now working fine. I'd just like to know what happened? Or was it just one of those strange things that sometimes happens for no reason whatsoever other than to ruin your day?
lol