Re: Occasionally my new home-built PC won't POST.


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The power appears to be OK (power LED comes on, case fans work), but
LCD remains blank. However if I turn the PC off then on again, all is
well for the rest of the day. Next morning, sometimes I get the same
symptoms.

V. quick spec = 520 PSU, Asus P5K mobo.

Although I built it myself, I'm still a bit of a thicko with all of
this stuff, so I'm not actually too sure where to begin looking for
potential problems. I thought (perhaps stupidly I'm not sure) that it
could be something wrong with the USB wireless mouse keyboard thingy
I'm using - maybe it's failing and the BIOS is most unhappy about it.
But as the case has no speaker (I think), I don't hear any BIOS beeps,
which is a shame because that could point me in the right direction.
I've also got an eSata cable plugged in the mobo with nothing on the
other end of it ATM. Could that confuse the mobo so much as to
prevent a POST?

Sorry for rambling, best regards, Robert.

Not familiar with the board but worth checking in the bios in case there is
a "halt boot on faults" option tho' even in that case you would still expect
a single beep before it gets that far down the boot up routine. A badly
seated card ( the older agp boards without the extra clip were poor for
that) or chip can sometimes hang a system prior to boot so start with a bare
board and keep adding until it fails or is it not that predictable?
any more folks?
Derek


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