my friends HP is in bad shape. the motherboard is a gigabyte GA-7N400L with athlon xp 2600+. everytime you reboot, the post screen will freeze for about 2 minutes. then it will continue as normal. if you press delete at the very beginning, it will remember you did, and will go into bios after those 2 minutes.
i noticed the CPU was at 62c while just being between the post screen and bios, the heatsink was not very warm, the fan was working great, even 2 case fans. can I assume someone at HP mounted the heatsink wrong?
I also flashed the bios with the newest one. can i also assume that the bios hang and temperature are one in the same problem? im probably going to call HP to just to see what they say, but thought id ask here as well. thanks
i noticed the CPU was at 62c while just being between the post screen and bios, the heatsink was not very warm, the fan was working great, even 2 case fans. can I assume someone at HP mounted the heatsink wrong?
I also flashed the bios with the newest one. can i also assume that the bios hang and temperature are one in the same problem? im probably going to call HP to just to see what they say, but thought id ask here as well. thanks