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Random Bios Boot :(

Mar 3, 2004 4:22PM PST

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this rather irratating problem. I aint touched the insides of my computer for 14 months and its just been used randomly (always on 24/7)

Yesterday i had a problem where my computer wouldnt restart.

So.

Windows > Shutdown > Turn On, No POST Beep (if thats what its called).

To me i thought the bios was dead or summit as the power works, it just dont do nothing, (cd roms spinning, keyboard works etc) Around after 50 restarts doing everything i can think of, it eventually booted up saying i installed a new CPU. Obviously i didnt but that didnt stop it asking me to set the speed. I chose 1733. The problem is, it restarts after this and goes dead again, or it did for another 40 restarts. Now, the hardware cant be too messed up as i randomly got it working. ie im typing on the comp in question. I thought it was a once off but its not as in the last 14 hours i have attempted to restart the system around 200 times and i have had around 6 "choose cpu speed" and 3 normal boot ups.

Motherboards have always been over my head so god knows whats wrong here.

So the fan kicks in, the powers on, the hard drive is working away, the cd rom and dvd rom drives are spinning away happily, the keyboard sometimes desides to blank me, however, my monitor stays on standby.

This is really strange as im using the computer as i have for the last 14 months, just to do stuff like write this and as you can see its working, it just seems to be givin me problms for the fun of it

:o(!!!

Any help you could give me would be really helpful :o)

Im going to look into flashing the bios but im clueless.

AMD Athlon 2200+
GForce 4600 ti
1024 MB DRR
A7V333 Asus Motherboard
Mitubishi Diamond Plus 9358 19"
SB Audigy 5.1

And thats pretty much all i can think of to write :o)

Thanks!

Clarky.

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Re:Random Bios Boot :(
Mar 3, 2004 10:26PM PST

Suggestion.

Remove the cover, get a small brush and a vac and clean out all the built up crud.

Power on the machine and inspect all the fans.
Look close as a slow fan is easy to miss.

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Re:Random Bios Boot :(
Mar 3, 2004 11:33PM PST

I run my system 24/7 too. One thing that will eventually fail or start to, is a fan. While, I can replace or temporary fix one, usually they become noisy or simply "stop/go" and that causes weird problems. As the other poster mentioned, open case and inspect fans. Continued operation of the system with a bad fan will cause other problem(s) due to heat build-up, so do it. A real quick test is, remove cover and place household fan to blow in and if it settles down, then its a bad fan or its already has a bad componet. Its not uncommon now to have at least 2-fans case fans in order to help cool the system besides any other device fans. If you like or not, you now have a good reason to upgrade to a new mtrbd. provided you never find the system fault.

good luck -----Willy

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Re:Random Bios Boot :(
Mar 5, 2004 2:56PM PST

Enter into your BIOS setup and there should be an option tab that displays case and CPU Temperature, along with all the voltages of the system. I know for my 2.4Ghz Intel I sometimes run 118 Degrees being overclocked to 2.8Ghz but everything runs perfect ( I run 24/7). If you have any voltage setting running about .8 to 1 Volt off what it should or more you may want to consider a new power supply. But try looking at those setting in BIOS and tell me how it goes. Also have you recently done anythign different at all with your system? If the settings are good I might suggest shorting the CMOS/BIOS by jumper and then starting your system back up and seeing how it goes....