possible problem with booting?

Dea924 · 14 Nov 2010 at 15:21

when i press the power button to switch the pc on.. it powers up for about 4 seconds.. turns off... *pauses* then powers up and works fine for however long i use it.

apart from today funnily enough, i went to post this thread about 20minutes ago and chrome crashed.. then the pc crashed.. then it restarted with a i/o problem (possible hardware unplugged or hdd may of failed) cue brown pants and lots of sighs. after waiting a while i switched back on and it booted up ala vista style, ran a diagnostic and booted up into windows 7 fine :confused:

now everything seems to be working fine *fingers crossed*

Freddie589 · 14 Nov 2010 at 18:55

heyy, i have an asus motherboard as well and ever since i have had my pc it does the same 4 second thing, i don't think it is a problem just a thing they do

not sure about your I/O problem though wait for more reply's on that one

mediaman · 14 Nov 2010 at 19:09

My motherboard (GA-P45-DQ6) does precisely that whenever I alter anything significant in the bios, voltages or significant fsb increases. I assumed it was just a update cmos to bios thing or some sort of self check prior to boot (if you was overvolting something). I don't have this when I am running at stock.

Dea924 · 14 Nov 2010 at 21:20

this actually sounds right, when im running stock cpu i dont think it goes off for the 4 seconds. maybe it is just when overclocking. i just thought it decided when it wanted to boot properly and when it didnt lol swift kick to the case to fix it sort of thing 8-)