Re: PC fails to complete POST
- From: Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:34:43 GMT
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:27:09 +0100, Philip Herlihy
<thiswillbounceback@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Bradbury wrote:
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.
That's worth a try - thanks!
Bad caps give symptoms like that, in fact - I didn't notice that you'd
started both these threads.
Cheers - Jaimie
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