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Boot up Problems
I just built a new computer, it seems to have boot up problems: blank screen,
nothing showing on display, the hard drive light flickers once and that is it, however after pressing the reset button, everything boots up fine and windows runs OK. This happens about 50% of the time, I don't think it is windows issue because this happened when there was no operating system on the hard drive. I suspect the video card or the hard drive. Any sugestions would be welcomed. -- Running windows vista business 32, on XFX 680i motherboard, quad core 2.66GHz, XFX 8800GT video. |
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Boot up Problems
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 11:11:00 -0700, Richard
wrote: I just built a new computer, it seems to have boot up problems: blank screen, nothing showing on display, the hard drive light flickers once and that is it, however after pressing the reset button, everything boots up fine and windows runs OK. This happens about 50% of the time, I don't think it is windows issue because this happened when there was no operating system on the hard drive. I suspect the video card or the hard drive. Any sugestions would be welcomed. You're right: it's not Windows. I doubt that it's the video card either because if it were malfunctioning, you'd hear some definite "beeps" from the speaker in your case. If it was the hard drive, your BIOS would still work and you'd should get POST progress messages, but it wouldn't see your hard drive. Open the thing up and wiggle everything (POWER DISCONNECTED) to make sure it's all seated properly. |
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Boot up Problems
Check your motherboard standoffs also. If they are seated just a little off
they can ground out your motherboard intermittently. "Richard" wrote in message news I just built a new computer, it seems to have boot up problems: blank screen, nothing showing on display, the hard drive light flickers once and that is it, however after pressing the reset button, everything boots up fine and windows runs OK. This happens about 50% of the time, I don't think it is windows issue because this happened when there was no operating system on the hard drive. I suspect the video card or the hard drive. Any sugestions would be welcomed. -- Running windows vista business 32, on XFX 680i motherboard, quad core 2.66GHz, XFX 8800GT video. |
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Boot up Problems
"Richard" wrote in message
news I just built a new computer, it seems to have boot up problems: blank screen, nothing showing on display, the hard drive light flickers once and that is it, however after pressing the reset button, everything boots up fine and windows runs OK. This happens about 50% of the time, I don't think it is windows issue because this happened when there was no operating system on the hard drive. I suspect the video card or the hard drive. Any sugestions would be welcomed. -- Running windows vista business 32, on XFX 680i motherboard, quad core 2.66GHz, XFX 8800GT video. If it was happening all the time as you describe I'd suspect that you have the front panel connectors misconfigured. It almost sounds like you may have connected the connector for the on/off switch to the motherboard where the connector for the reset switch should be and vice versa. Nepatsfan |