Problems with boot ups?

Monstermunch · 23 Apr 2006 at 10:46

Wondering if anyone knows what's causing this. I'm not far from an upgrade but my current PC is annoying. It takes 3 attempts to boot each time before it actually starts.

Thing is that once it's started it's extremely stable, never even had a BSOD. Current spec:

2500+ Barton @ 2.2ghz
Asus A7N8X-E
Crucial PC3200
HIS 9800Pro @ 425/790
Antec 430w

Can play, FEAR, COD2, HL2, B&W2 without crashing....

Any ideas?

xirokx · 23 Apr 2006 at 11:00

If your system is overclocked please advise what stability tests you ran? and for how long?

When you say it takes 3 attempts to boot, is there any error messages?

wilders · 23 Apr 2006 at 11:09

I had a similar issue which I swapped the psu out thinking it was psu related. Turned out to be my motherboard.
You tried stripping out all cards etc and running with just graphics card and 1 stick of memory to see if theres a dodgy card or stick of ram in there? Also, try another psu first

Monstermunch · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:28

Tried all of the above, ran memtest. No errors for 15hours.

No error messages appear and like I said no BSOD's. Just gets to the welcome screen twice & restarts. Then enters Windows with no problems.

My cpu is from 1.8 ~ 2.2ghz but still only hits a max of 28deg under load and idles around 19deg

Monstermunch · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:29

I have a sneaking suspicion that it may be Samurize causing the problems... but not 100%

WatchTower · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:33

I had a lanparty mobo that hated 2x1Gb sticks for some reason. It would take me maybe three or more attemps to boot into windows but when I got into windows everything run fine.

When I put my old samsung DDR 2700 back in it booted 1st time. Do you have some other memory you can try to see if that fixes anything.

Trigger · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:53

Sounds like a Windows issue to be honest. Have you tried booting into safe mode instead and seeing if it starts first time?

Monstermunch · 23 Apr 2006 at 12:59

Trigger said:
Sounds like a Windows issue to be honest. Have you tried booting into safe mode instead and seeing if it starts first time?

Goes into safe mode 1st time every time

Trigger · 23 Apr 2006 at 13:30

Have you tried a format then? You'd be better trying that before you go paying out for hardware

wilders · 23 Apr 2006 at 13:33

Ahh...I was assuming you'd tried a fresh install before thinking of swapping out hardware.....

Monstermunch · 23 Apr 2006 at 14:30

No, not thinking of doing anything really just bugging me thats all. I'll be building a new rig in a few weeks!