POST freezes but works fine when reset



Hello all,

On my Sempron 2200+ system, at various points during "POST / DMI Pool Data,
detecting IDE drives (etc)" the system just hangs.

No beeping, no error message, no garbled characters onscreen, it just
doesn't progress any further - at first you think it's just being slow but
then 5 mins later you realise it's fallen asleep ;-)

When I reset, all is fine - boots up perfectly. It never crashes when it's
on and is used quite regularly. I can only imagine there's some problem with
the BIOS or CMOS but I've reset it all to default and the problem persists.

Any suggestions would be appreciated - it's not the worst thing that can
happen but it's a bit annoying!


.



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