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RancidWAnnaRIot

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Hello,

Okay.. so this has happened twice to me already..

I turn on the computer, and nothing happens.. the screen stays blank, and i hear no beeps.. all he fans start up.. everything sounds like it starts up.. but like i said.. i get no POST beep..

i always have to hard shut off.. and turn on again.. then it POSTs, and everything seems fine..

anyone have a clue as to what's happening??

THanks.

I hope this doesn't mean my hardware is gonna die soon :(


I have a barton core 2500+ clocked to a 3200+.. it's been clocked for alittle over a year now.. WIN XP pro with all updates.. 1 gig of geil RAM. ASUS A78X-E mobo.. a Radeon 9800XT.. damn it.. i hope something bad isn't happening.. :( :(


i'm gonna take a guess and say it happens on cold start ups.. as it's only happened when the computer has been off for a while..
 
D3v01D said:
Try putting your CPU back to stock speeds and see if it still happens.
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damn it.. lol i was hoping i wouldn't have to do that..

uumm i won't be able to do it today (i'll do it tomorrow).. but are there any other suggestions..??

Thanks
 
How many drives and fans do you have in there and on what kind of powersupply?

Harddrives and fans take a lot of juice to start up initially so you may be overloading your psu on startup, but when you try to restart since the drives are already spinning they don't need as much juice on startup.

If you have a lot of harddrives, try unplugging all except the drive with the OS and see if you still get the same problem.

OC'ing will cause more power draw too so that is a potential problem also.
 
I kind of had a silimar problem and like someone said HDs take a lot to power up. I had a HD that was ready to crap the bed and I pulled it and never had a POST problem since. Try pulling the HD and see if you get the same problem. I know you wont be able to get to windows without the HD but if it posts fine every time without the hd plugged in then you know its the HD.
 
thanks for the suggestions.. as i said.. i won't be able to try any of this till later..

but..

i have 2 HDDs, 4 case fans, alittle LCD thingy that has tempature probes and fan speed monitoring.. CD-R drive.. DVD-ROm drive.. my power supply is an Antec ION 400W...

but how come this would never happen before??

anyway.. appreciate the suggestions..
 
okay, i'm going to try a few things.. but now i get a beeping like every 10 minutes while the computer is work??

anyone have a clue?

thanks
 
So now the computer works, what did you do to fix the blank screen problem? I think the beeping is coming from the BIOS letting you know that the CPU might be running too hot, check the temps.
 
To get out og the blank screen, i would just turn off the computer.. andturn it on again.. then it would boot up correctly..


actually.. so here's what's going on..

the beeping was coming from that fan mothering thing i have.. I removed it, and i also check all my connectsion.. reseated RAM,vid card, and sound card (no CPU reseat).. dusted out the case (there wasn't much dust anyway)


i ran memtest, and i got no errors..

i haven't experienced the blank screen on booting.. but i'm gonna have to jsut monitor that for a few days to see if it's gone now...

Temps are okay BTW. i'm also gonna run a HDD scan utility that came with my HDDs
 
if the problem continues.. i'm gonna guess it's the HDD.. cause i just noticed that evey so often it makes these sounds, like it's being acessed adn ntohign is happening...

so yeah i'm gonna keep my eye on the HDD as well.. TIME FOR BACK UPS!!

thanks for your help by the way
 
my friend got the same problem, and im gessing its the 9800XT.

he has an a64 3000+ everything stock, and now when he hits the power button, everything powerup but no signal at the screen. he hear 9 or 10 beep, then he shut down, try agan, not working, try again 8 hours later, it works...

what can it be?!
 
Shogo said:
my friend got the same problem, and im gessing its the 9800XT.

he has an a64 3000+ everything stock, and now when he hits the power button, everything powerup but no signal at the screen. he hear 9 or 10 beep, then he shut down, try agan, not working, try again 8 hours later, it works...

what can it be?!
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crazy..

but in my case.. i don't hear any beeps.

and like i said.. this has only happened twice.. i gotta see if it happens in the future
 
ill post my problem in a different thread, i dont want to hijack yours eheh
 
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