Wierd Boot Problem

[BucsMAN3K]

So lately I have been having problems booting my computer the first few times I start it. I would start it, and everything would power fine...it just wouldn't boot. So I would turn it off, and try again, and again, and after a few times it would boot. Once it would boot, the computer would run without a hitch, and I usually leave it on for a few days.

Then, once I shut it off, and then tried to start it, the same problem would persist. Sometimes it would take 20 times of turning it on and off, sometimes it would take 2.

I tried reducing the power load to see if it would boot easier that way, incase the PSU was going bad. To no avail. The PSU works fine in another computer of mine.

I checked to see if the mobo was grounded in some way, it was not.

The only thing I can link to the problem is the ram. One day it just wouldn't boot at all, so I took out one stick of ram. When I did that the computer booted just fine, and so then I put the stick back and it still booted just fine.

The only thing is, when it would have the boot problems a couple days later, this method did not work.

So basically, my computer runs fine...If I can get it to start....as it takes me several if not many times of turning it on and off to get a boot.

Could this just be a static build up of some sort? Or what the hell is going on?

 

[VanTheMan]

What PSU do you have? Do you have the most recent BIOS for your mobo? Run a check on your RAM as well.

 

[speedstream5621]

What do you mean by "it just wouldn't boot?" Does the system just hang? Any hard drive activity?

Try just the motherboard, CPU, one stick of RAM, and your hard drive outside of the case.

If you want to test your RAM, run the lastest version of Memtest. You can do both sticks at once if you'd like. Test each one if you get an error with both.

What hard drive do you have?