Wont POST on reboot / reset

LOAM · 10 Jul 2007 at 09:29

Basically as it says on the tin, Turn PC on, all is good it will boot into either XP or Vista (dual boot) and run fine. If however I reboot it via Vista / XP / Bios it wont post, it just sits there until I press the reset button, then its fine again.

Totally baffled tbh as it was not doing this when I used it last (about 5 days ago). It has been moved to a different room though but very carefully, What is it with PC's that don't like being moved around the house ?

Anyway that's it, any thoughts ?

LOAM

Admiral Huddy · 10 Jul 2007 at 09:56

Sounds like reset is going into standby mode.?? Check your Power options etc are ok and that ACPI is enabled.

LOAM · 10 Jul 2007 at 10:10

great idea, and certainly worth checking, cheers

LOAM · 11 Jul 2007 at 13:42

checked everything in Bios seems fine tbh

ACPI is enabled and suspend mode is set to S1 (POS) Only.

in both XP and vista its set to to never go to sleep or hibernate.

Oddly though its stopped doing it anyway, although last night at 20:57 is seemed to go into an unrecoverable sleep mode that required a reset, i knew this because the the clock on my G15 had stopped.

On reboot all was fine and so Iprime95'd it for 3 hours without an issue. no idea tbh.

LOAM