Experts, please, lend me your ears...

[Spudd]

I just a built a new computer but it has an annoying problem. Example: I'm working on my computer, and everything is fine. I shut it down normally at night. If I come back to it and try to turn it on the following morning, everything spins up and turns on EXCEPT nothing gets shown on the monitor--in other words, the monitors LED stays orange to show it's not getting anything from the computer (just a black screen, not even BIOS post).

When I check my motherboard's post LED, it shows a code 26 (bad overclock). The thing is, I'm NOT overclocking anything-- it's a retail XP2200+.

I try restarting but that doesn't help the problem. The only way to get the computer to boot properly, is to actually hit the switch on the back of the power supply to cut off all electricity to the computer, then switch the PS back on. THEN I can boot the computer without a problem. Why is this happening? Any ideas folks? Help would be much appreciated. (BTW, didn't see anything during a forum search about this particular problem). System specs are as follows:

AMD Athlon XP2200+
Epox 8rDa+ Rev. 1.1 (updated Bios)
512 MB DDR Crucial PC2100
ATI Radeon 8500LE 128MB DDR RAM
Maxtor 40Gig 5400 rpm HDD
Liteon DVD player
CDwriter
ATI TV Wonder VE
U.S. Robotics 56K Faxmodem
Speedstream 3060 DSL modem
Monitor is an NEC MultiSync FE700+
PS is a Fortron 350Watt (the one from THG reviews, etc.)

 

[DieHardware]

Do you have another PSU to try? Have you tried a different BIOS version?(perhaps the previous version might work better) Could the RAM be set to a higher frequency than it's rated for?

 

[Zepper]

Try clearing the CMOS.
.bh.
Hoping for :sun:!

 

[Spudd]

Yeah, how do I check my ram timings? It's a stick of 512 PC2100 DDR from Crucial. Let me hop on over there and see if they have the timings for it, and compare against the BIOS settings. I saw something on nforcershq about the default RAM timings being too high from the factory.

 

[Spudd]

By the way, thank you very much to all who replied. I appreciate your help grealty. :beer: