very very strange problem!!

yannis76 · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:21

Hi!

the last 40 days I have this very strange problem with my PC:
when I start it for the first time in a day, it freezes up during the Windows load up(XP and Vista). If I do a soft reset it worked like a charm. It even works if I soft reset immediately after the first power on!! Any ideas??

C2D 6600, 2GB DDR2-800, Asus P5B, Geforce 8800GTX

moid · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:27

Hard drive not spinning up in time?

On second reboot its already spinning and gets up to speed to load windows.

Not sure but I have heard of this in the past when the HDD is on its way out.

yannis76 · 11 Oct 2007 at 22:46

I dont think so. Its happening on both OSes (xp and Vista) and they are on different disks...

firewallblocked · 12 Oct 2007 at 00:53

Had this problem before and then it was caused by the psu, had similiar problem on another machine and the cmos battery was dying. If you don't have a spare psu to test against your current psu, try a low spec graphics card (say a 7300 or so) as this won't need so much power and may point to a failing psu.

yannis76 · 12 Oct 2007 at 16:27

I have also suspected the PSU...Its a Tagan Easycon 520W. Having calculated my PC's power needs, I found out that 420W are enough...I dont have any spare PSU neither am old card

yannis76 · 12 Oct 2007 at 20:13

well, its not the PSU!!! I tested my PC with a Corsair 620HW and it had the same behaviour. However, it started normally and then after scanning all the USB devices it stacked again. maybe its a usb device...