Computer occasionally won't boot

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EviLBoX

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My computer is roughly 3-4 years old and here are the specs:
Athlon XP 1800+
Asus A7V266-E Motherboard
2x256 MB PC2100 Corsair RAM
Enermax 350 Watt PS

A few days ago when I turned on my computer, the monitor never came out of sleep mode and all I heard was an infinite number of POST beeps. I then hit reset and after 2-3 tries it finally booted up and everything was fine. Since then it has done the same thing a few times and it will occasionally make it past the POST test and just lockup. Once again after hitting reset a few times I'm finally able to get it to boot up completely. One of the times it also kicked me immediately into BIOS.

My Dad said it might be the battery on the motherboard going out or possibly my power supply. Any ideas what the problem may be? I thought possibly bad RAM, but then the problem wouldn't be intermittent right?
 
though parents arnt normaily right when it comes to computers, he may be right this time. swap the battery on the mo-bo. if that doesnt work it may be your gfx card, or could be a ram issue, try running memtest on ur puter and see what happens.
 
Update:

I replaced the battery on my motherboard a few months ago and up until 2 days ago everything was fine. Now my computer is having the same problem in addition to randomly rebooting in Windows every once in a while. Any ideas?
 
Check the capacitors to rule out bad caps...

Pics of bad caps
bad2.jpg
bad1.jpg


Also look inside the power supply...

Sometimes they die...
 
Problem Solved.

I ran memtest and it failed in test #2. I reset my RAM settings in BIOS to "auto" and everything seems fine.
 
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