In my slightly antique system?
MSI-KM400
AMD athlon 2500
1Gb Ram
FX5700
1xDVD R/W drive
3X HD's all IDE, 1xmaxtor 120gb, 1 x samsung 120gb, 1x samsung 300gb
At post the bloomin heap often hangs when it gets to 'detecting IDE drives'
Sometimes it doesn't even get as far as the memory test, just showing 'memory testi' on the post screen.
Thing is, if I leave the thing on the hung POST screen for 10 minutes and then re-boot it quite often starts up.
I've run the SMART hd check in speedfan and they all come back as 95%+ healthy (not bad for a 6 year old PC eh?)
Ideas?
I suspect it's a mobo component thats on its way out.
MSI-KM400
AMD athlon 2500
1Gb Ram
FX5700
1xDVD R/W drive
3X HD's all IDE, 1xmaxtor 120gb, 1 x samsung 120gb, 1x samsung 300gb
At post the bloomin heap often hangs when it gets to 'detecting IDE drives'
Sometimes it doesn't even get as far as the memory test, just showing 'memory testi' on the post screen.
Thing is, if I leave the thing on the hung POST screen for 10 minutes and then re-boot it quite often starts up.
I've run the SMART hd check in speedfan and they all come back as 95%+ healthy (not bad for a 6 year old PC eh?)
Ideas?
I suspect it's a mobo component thats on its way out.