I just built a Athlon 1.6XP system on a ECS Sis735 based motherboard. 256MB Crucial DDR ram, Geforce 3 TI200, SBLIVE!, Elight 300W midtower case, 60GB Harddisk. Windows ME is installed.
The system performs great in benchmarks, but there is one odd problem. After the system sits unpowered for about 8 hours or longer, the bootup freezes when it gets to the white Windows ME screen. I have to hit the reset switch followed by a safemode boot into windows. After a reboot there the system is fine. In fact, I can shut it down, reboot it as many times as I want without no problem. I tried leaving it turned off for about 4 hours at a time and no problems at all. But when I shut it down at 4:00PM and come to work the next morning at 8:00, it does the freeze thing at the windows screen.
Anyone else encounter this? I'm pretty much clueless as to what would cause something like this. Help would be appreciated. Thanks.
The system performs great in benchmarks, but there is one odd problem. After the system sits unpowered for about 8 hours or longer, the bootup freezes when it gets to the white Windows ME screen. I have to hit the reset switch followed by a safemode boot into windows. After a reboot there the system is fine. In fact, I can shut it down, reboot it as many times as I want without no problem. I tried leaving it turned off for about 4 hours at a time and no problems at all. But when I shut it down at 4:00PM and come to work the next morning at 8:00, it does the freeze thing at the windows screen.
Anyone else encounter this? I'm pretty much clueless as to what would cause something like this. Help would be appreciated. Thanks.
