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ej159

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I got to my PC tonight went on it, turned it off and ran away for an hour or so and then I came back and turned it on again. It sounded normal, fan starting up etc., but it just hung after stating the CPU name. I then turned off the power at the mains and tried again- it got to counting the RAM and stopped. I tried again - just the CPU name. I tried several times getting different things each time, never the boot list and I was never able to press Del (as it says on the screen) to get into BIOS.

Eventually I sort of physically jiggled my case a little and it booted into windows straight off. I haven't powered down since and I daren't in case I can't boot.

I've done no hardware changes although I was playing with a USB to IDE cable with old HDDs but that was all disconnected and the system didn't get as far as to consider the HDD.

Any advice/moral support welcome :)
 
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Any other specs i.e. motherboard, ram, details?

I (infrequently) get that problem with my DFI Infinity 865pe rev2 board on my old PC, hit reset and it will boot up fine... think its due to the RAM sometimes not being "warmed up enough" for want of a more technical way of putting it :D
 
I'm running a 939 Opteron 165 on a MSI K8N sli (I think that's the model) with 2x1gbs of corsair value RAM.

It's doing it again so bad that I've given up trying. I reset the CMOS and it ran fine last night but I reset it again today and still it keeps freezing before it gets to it detecting IDE drives. And there it stays. If I restart straight away it wont even show the amount of RAM. I can't see anything I've done wrong as it was working perfectly and it's come on very suddenly.

It's really wierd because on the rare occassions (i.e. last night) I get into windows there seems to be no problem. I don't really want to fork out for a new mobo. Is there anything I could do?

This is really bugging me as I really need to use my pc!
 
I seem to have been able to get in some how. I reset the CMOS several times and unplugged peripherals and it went okish. Any idea what I should do? Should I try to flash the BIOS? I can't see how that would help as it does occasionally get in. This is a sickening problem.
 
Yeah dodgy CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drives can do that on some boards.

Also do you have any USB peripherals plugged in (other than mice), especially storage devices, I've got a pen drive that when plugged in can cause one of my machines to freeze at the IDE detection stage.

Might want to run through memtest86+ to see if theres any obvious issues...

another possibility if you have or have had the CPU overvolted, after awhile many CPUs, especially P4 Northwoods start to fail due to the changes caused by the extra voltage, this usually shows up as random bluescreens and complete freezes.
 
Thanks for the help people. It seems to have sorted itself. I started up with everything unplugged after a CMOS reset and now it appears to be ok. I can't see what I changed really but all seems ok. Thank you :)
 
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