Re: Any ideas - PC stopped POSTing/booting

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:19:38 -0800 (PST), pauld <pauld581@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

wouldn't have noticed any beeps or lack of beeps. I did a hard reset
and got a "failed disk - need to reset BIIOS to defaults" warning
which I promptly ignored and allowed the system to boot as usual,
which it did.

Since then it has progressed to where cold booting could take upwards
of a dozen cycles of turning on the power switch/holding down for four
seconds to kill it - repeat before I get a beep and a normal POST and
boot. I will repeat that the fans/drives spin up and the case/mobo
LEDs light. There is no beep and no video. Once it finally does boot
the system runs *perfectly*. A hot restart has also been fine.

first thing I'd try would be to open it up & make sure all cables were
properly plugged in .. data & power for hard drives :)

.

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