Re: PC fails to complete POST

I have a machine which, about half the time, won't complete PowerOnSelfTest
(POST, for anyone even less clued-up on hardware than I am!). This machine
starts to show BIOS messages, but all-too-often quickly ends up with a
blank screen with a flashing cursor top-left. What's that all about?

On some occasions it boots fine...


Might be one of several things - flaky HDD, CPU, memory, MB....in fact
anything! Just by chance, try resetting the BIOS by taking out the battery
on the MB, and then see what happens. I've had a PC with a similar issue be
fixed before now when I've done this.


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