Delayed Booting

[DisinfectedDuck]

When I start my pc I hear the fans turning, the cd light is blinking but the pc doesn't start right away. for a couple of seconds you can hear the fans stopping and restarting, as if the pc is reseting a couple of times. Then after a few seconds, maybe 10, the screen turns on and the pc boots fine.

Any ideas what's causing this?

 

[DisinfectedDuck]

BUMP

common guys, need some help

 

[DisinfectedDuck]

BUMP again..

Sorry to be a pain but I really want some help guys..

 

[Matthias99]

Hmm. Dunno. Inadequate/flaky power supply, or maybe you're plugged into an overloaded circuit? Maybe listing all the parts in the system would help; you gave *very* little to go on here.

 

[brentkiosk]

Not too much info.

I had a similar problem on my old celeron system, and it turned out to be the power supply. If you have a spare, try a swap.

 

[DisinfectedDuck]

I tried 3 power supplies, all the same.

Specs -

Athlon 1.4 TB
EPOX 8K7A
2x256 mb 2100 Micron Ram
80gb WD Caviar HDD
Asus GF3
Hercules GTXP
Antec PSU - don't remember which one, but it's a good one.

 

[seismik]

Any beeps?

I had a problem with my system booting slowly and I did a few things to speed it up. First, in your BIOS there might be a 'Delay for USB boot device' option, where the system looks for a USB key or similiar at boot. I set the delay to 0. Then changed my IDE cabling to that I went IDE Primary -> HDD Master -> Optical Slave, and IDE Secondary -> HDD slave -> Optical Master. For whatever reason this helped me out bigtime, system boots like a rocket now, though I still have a series of beeps at startup that are pretty annoying.