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ej159

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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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.
 
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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