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Computer Booting Problem

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Limp Gawd
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I posted this before but I've tried every bit of advice from that post with no luck. Need some help badly. Thanks in advance.

System:
A7N8X-E motherboard
AMD Athlon 2600+ Barton CPU
2 x Kingston LevelII 256MB ram
GeForce Ti4200
Antec TruePower 330W PS
Maxtor 20GB ATA133 HD
Western Digital 20GB ATA100 HD
Windows XP Home

The problem I'm having is the monitor loses the video signal when I try to boot the system after it's been off for a while. I have to hit the reset button to get it to boot into Windows sometimes up to 4 or 5 times. I can see everything POST fine but when it tries to load Windows it will lose the video signal and the monitor will go back into standby.

Once I get it into Windows it will work perfectly until I shut it off completely and try to reboot it again.


I have tried all of the following with no luck.

1) updated all my drivers (didn't work)
2) went back to old version of drivers (didn't work)
3) tried 2 different known working monitors (didn't work)
4) tried 2 different known working video cards (didn't work)
5) bought a new motherboard (didn't work)
6) swapped hard drives and did a fresh install of windows and all drivers (didn't work)
7) ran memtest86 all night with no errors
8) swapped ram into different slots (didn't work)
9) checked seating of all components and checked for motherboard shorts to the case (didn't work)
10) checked all cables and plugs (didn't work)
11) removed the bios battery and cleared the cmos (didn't work)

I'm really getting to the end of my rope here, I just can't figure out what the problem is. The computer ran perfectly for months before this problem started happening and I never installed any new software or hardware before this happened so I know it isn't a configuration problem with that. Please help if you can.
 
I would never knock on an Antec PSU, but that looks like the only thing that you haven't tried and I've seen have problems. I had a 300w Antec and with age (about a year) I started getting random corruption on my display. I tried 4 different video cards before I got it to stop doing it.

I know you may not have one, but trying another PSU would be my recommendation.
 
I guess I should just go out and buy a new PS.

How would a bad power supply be causing this problem, and if it is a bad power supply, why does it not show any problems whatsoever once I can actually get Windows to boot?

Thanks for the advice though, probably the only thing I haven't tried because I don't want to spring for a new PS.

If anyone has any other advice please share it as well. Thanks.
 
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