jpmad4it Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 hi,i have been having problems with my system on start-up. The problem ONLY OCCURS AFTER A LONG SHUT DOWN i.e.NOT on a restart or even if i shut-down for a short period of time. Its usually when i leave my system off over night and come to turn it on the following day. The problem occurs just before the WinXP screen appears (not the logon screen the one previous to that). Everything is going fine, and then it just hangs. I have to restart a couple of times to get it to boot up successfully. It cannot be a Windows problem, as i did a clean reformat yesterday, and yet the problem still occurs. Its as though the hard drive isnt being recognised - its weird. Once i get into windows i have no problems at all. Everything works great.Ive noticed that when i come to start-up the PC the USB light on my modem usually flashes during boot up (on a successful boot up that is), and the PC speaker gives one short beep. I can now recognise when the system will hang, as the USB light does not flash at all on start-up, and there is no system beep either- not sure why this is?!?!i.e. if the USB light flashes and the pc beeps - boot up will be successful.if the USB light does not flash and there is no beep - the system will hang.Does this sound like a hardware problem???Does anyone have any ideas ?regards Jp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Don't know about it being a hardware problem but have you run XP's check disk utility? This will fix any file system errors and bad sectors if present.Can't offer any other advice sorry :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scuzzman Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 This sounds as though your motherboard is on its way out. The reason I say this is because of the intermittent POST testing (the single *beep* is called a POST code and indicates everything is fine) and USB light...There could also be a conflict between devices on your system, or your BIOS could have an improper setup.Enter the BIOS, and confirm the drives are properly configured, and not set to "AUTO" (or auto-detect, ect). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 I had the same problem. Windows would take about 10 restarts to boot, but once it did it was fine. My problem was, the video card was no plugged in all the way. On most newer AGP (4X, 8X) they require you to almost break them to get them in properly. Some have a small clip that will latch on to one side on the card to hold it in place. I would also check all PCI cards, RAM and unplug and replug your hard drive and CD-ROM IDE cables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 Agree with the above, also if you have more than one stick of memory, remove and just boot from one stick, if it works fine this way, remove that stick and try another until you find the one causing the problem.If its not memory related then look to the power supply, booting is where everything is drawing on the power unit and if there is a fault with the supply then this is the most likely time for it to show itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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