PC Needs to 'Warmup'

Russinating · 20 Apr 2007 at 09:05

It seems that recently my PC needs to 'warmup' to be able to boot. It stalls on the "PCI Device Listing..." black screen (screen prior to Windows Boot), and will only eventually boot up when I restart 1/2 mins later. Restarting my PC is fine and it goes straight into boot.

Asus A8N-E
AMD X2 3800+
Corsair 2GB XMS3500
GF7800 GTX
Hiper 580W

Any ideas!? :confused:

Ysmalari · 20 Apr 2007 at 11:40

Do you have your hard drives on RAID? I had this on a previous rig, for me it turned out to be the IDE RAID controller as the moment I went back to single drives it solved the problem.

mishima · 20 Apr 2007 at 11:42

I have a similar issue, sometimes when I bootup it says no HDD found, if I reboot it then finds it and works.

NightSt@lk3r · 20 Apr 2007 at 11:45

try a different power supply.

Russinating · 20 Apr 2007 at 12:54

Used to get that too mishma, but now it occurs even when all hard drives are detected (as you can see on the screen it stalls on). I thought it sounded like a PSU problem, but then I thought the Hiper would be decent enough for it not to be

. I dont think I have a spare PSU over 250W either which'll probably cause problems of its own

londonbairn · 20 Apr 2007 at 13:55

Get that sometimes too, the way around it for me is to go into the boot menu.

It seems to have happened a lot since I "uninstalled" Vista from my other HD in the machine. I'd imagine if I formatted that drive it would not do this anymore.

Jameshill675 · 20 Apr 2007 at 14:21

Dpon't mean to hijack the thread matey, but what did you need to run Dual core on that board?

I am curious as I have that board too and I was looking at upgrading cheaply £100< atm.

furnace · 20 Apr 2007 at 14:59

rghjones; Sorry I figure I'll mention it before someone else does... The max height for a sig is 75px, yours is 80px. 5 whole pixels difference, I know, but it's enough to get your sig removed

I've cropped one slightly incase you're feeling lazy

NightSt@lk3r · 20 Apr 2007 at 15:02

rghjones said:
I thought it sounded like a PSU problem, but then I thought the Hiper would be decent enough for it not to be .

i thought that about the Hiper too untill they started dying like fly's then mine went too.

flying grouse · 20 Apr 2007 at 16:34

rghjones said:
It seems that recently my PC needs to 'warmup' to be able to boot. It stalls on the "PCI Device Listing..." black screen (screen prior to Windows Boot), and will only eventually boot up when I restart 1/2 mins later. Restarting my PC is fine and it goes straight into boot.

Asus A8N-E
AMD X2 3800+
Corsair 2GB XMS3500
GF7800 GTX
Hiper 580W

Any ideas!?

similar problem untill I RMAd HDD (drive was only 6mths old)

Russinating · 22 Apr 2007 at 10:27

If you've got the exact same board as me James, it should be 939, so just whack one in. Mine (3800+) costs about £50 now, which is a bit depressing seeing as I paid £229

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My HDD's only 3 months old, and it'd be a pain in the *** to backup 500GB for an RMA. Plus I've got another 2 HDD's and I'm guessing it could be one of those too. Guess I'll just have to put up with it for now!