For no reason whatsoever, well that I am aware of, my PC seems to have developed a boot issue. I've always had boot times of like 30 seconds until recently.
I would switch the PC on for the first time in the day and the computer would start as normal, except it would just hang and the monitor would report no siganl. I'd leave it...nothing....hard reset...same thing again....hard reset and for no apparent reason start up fine.
This problem seemed to get worse and required more and more hard re-boots to get the PC to post. Anyway, I thought it was a PSU/voltage issue so I changed the PSU. Everything back to normal. GREAT!
Now all of a sudden it's started again but far worse. Or so I thought. Having reinstalled XP, replaced cables, removed sound, network, SCSI, Graphics, memory to try to establish if one of those was the culprit, no change. This was really starting to fox me.
Anyway today I started the PC as normal. No signal. So I decided to leave it while I composed myself and held myself back before it put my foot through it when after 2 to 3 mins of no signal the PC just booted up as normal.
WTH is going on here? Anyone offer any suggestions?
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Okay, this is what I found. For some reason I had the jumper on the back of the Pioneer 105S DVD Rom drive set to CS. If I recall correctly this was the only way I could get the BIOS (v1013) to recognise the drive as a slave drive. Now, when set to CS and running version 1013 BIOS for my P4C800-E Deluxe my PC booted normally. Since then and in the meantime I updated the BIOS to v1014. This is hopefully where the problem lay in that having the DVD Rom drive jumper set to CS does not work with the 1014 BIOS Rom. However, setting the jumper to "slave" as it should have been in the first place seems to have resolved the issue. Now I don't want to run b4 I can walk but my PC booted up successfully this morning after having been turned off for 8 to 10 hours.
Fingers crossed that this was the problem. Anyone wanna buy a Pioneer DVD-120s which I purchased in the meantime as I was going through thr process of elimination...
I would switch the PC on for the first time in the day and the computer would start as normal, except it would just hang and the monitor would report no siganl. I'd leave it...nothing....hard reset...same thing again....hard reset and for no apparent reason start up fine.
This problem seemed to get worse and required more and more hard re-boots to get the PC to post. Anyway, I thought it was a PSU/voltage issue so I changed the PSU. Everything back to normal. GREAT!
Now all of a sudden it's started again but far worse. Or so I thought. Having reinstalled XP, replaced cables, removed sound, network, SCSI, Graphics, memory to try to establish if one of those was the culprit, no change. This was really starting to fox me.
Anyway today I started the PC as normal. No signal. So I decided to leave it while I composed myself and held myself back before it put my foot through it when after 2 to 3 mins of no signal the PC just booted up as normal.
WTH is going on here? Anyone offer any suggestions?
[edit]
Okay, this is what I found. For some reason I had the jumper on the back of the Pioneer 105S DVD Rom drive set to CS. If I recall correctly this was the only way I could get the BIOS (v1013) to recognise the drive as a slave drive. Now, when set to CS and running version 1013 BIOS for my P4C800-E Deluxe my PC booted normally. Since then and in the meantime I updated the BIOS to v1014. This is hopefully where the problem lay in that having the DVD Rom drive jumper set to CS does not work with the 1014 BIOS Rom. However, setting the jumper to "slave" as it should have been in the first place seems to have resolved the issue. Now I don't want to run b4 I can walk but my PC booted up successfully this morning after having been turned off for 8 to 10 hours.
Fingers crossed that this was the problem. Anyone wanna buy a Pioneer DVD-120s which I purchased in the meantime as I was going through thr process of elimination...
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