"Hesitation" when starting computer

[Merad]

Not sure how else to describe it. When I hit the power button on my desktop from a cold start, the fans, power light, etc will come on for about 1 second, then go off for about 2-3 seconds, and then the pc starts normally. This is a Corsair 650W PSU that's exactly 3 years old, and there are no problems at all once the PC is actually running. Should I be concerned?

 

[dkm777]

I had a few motherboards that used to do this. For one of them a BIOS update fixed it, for others nothing helped. But they kept working until they got obsolete and I replaced them. I wouldn't worry about it, although it is rather annoying.

 

[rolli59]

Agreed nothing to worry about, on another forum I have seen many posts about for example Asrock boards doing that.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I've seen this too, always makes me think there's something wrong but it keeps working... definitely weird.

 

[philipma1957]

yeah I have 11 pc's doing bitcoin mining 2 or 3 of them have been doing that since oct 2012

 

[Ketchup]

My board does this the boot after I change something in the BIOS.
I wonder if this is just your board doing a check before it boots, or it thinks there is a setting in there it doesn't like. Nothing bad in either case, just weird.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

probably some bios setting or possibly a dying cmos battery

 

[zebrax2]

IIRC the sureboot option in the bios does what you are describing for my motherboard