Hi, im new here so forgive me if im in the wrong place. my pc has been having this problem on and off for the last 6 months or so. In the last week or 2 its been happening all the time. Basicly when I hit the power button all the fans start up but it wont boot. I have to reluctantly keep re-setting it untill it powers down and powers itself back up again. That is when it boots. Sometimes i only have to press re-set 5 or 6 times. counted about 20 today 
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I have done a re-install about 8 months ago, just to speed the thing up. Dont think that caused any probs and dont really want to have to do it again if im not 100% reassured that that will fix it.
My machine is about 4/5 years old. Done a motherboard update yesterday. One thing i noticed is that it only has this prob on the 1st start up of the day. If I shut it down it will boot straight back up again.
Info from belarc advisor....
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5K SE Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: MS1C76B39301666
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1104 07/07/2008
2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded
249.99 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
197.93 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
CD-ROM Drive [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
SAMSUNG SP2504C [Hard drive] (250.00 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S0WRJ1PP508282, rev VT100-52, SMART Status: Healthy
2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes new – volume encryption
c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 83.89 GB 59.59 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 83.89 GB 56.65 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 0) 82.21 GB 81.69 GB free
* Operating System is installed on c:
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT [Display adapter]
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n 0003H9MZB02152, November 2010)
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom)
Installed: 17/02/2011 06:55:54
Hope this is enough info and thank you so much in advance for help and support.
Mark
. I have done a re-install about 8 months ago, just to speed the thing up. Dont think that caused any probs and dont really want to have to do it again if im not 100% reassured that that will fix it.
My machine is about 4/5 years old. Done a motherboard update yesterday. One thing i noticed is that it only has this prob on the 1st start up of the day. If I shut it down it will boot straight back up again.
Info from belarc advisor....
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5K SE Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: MS1C76B39301666
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1104 07/07/2008
2.67 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded
249.99 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
197.93 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
CD-ROM Drive [Optical drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
SAMSUNG SP2504C [Hard drive] (250.00 GB) -- drive 0, s/n S0WRJ1PP508282, rev VT100-52, SMART Status: Healthy
2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes new – volume encryption
c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 83.89 GB 59.59 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 83.89 GB 56.65 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 0) 82.21 GB 81.69 GB free
* Operating System is installed on c:
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT [Display adapter]
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (24.0"vis, s/n 0003H9MZB02152, November 2010)
Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United Kingdom)
Installed: 17/02/2011 06:55:54
Hope this is enough info and thank you so much in advance for help and support.
Mark
