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 Post Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:49 am 
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Hit the power button, everything spins up....wait 5-10 seconds, everything spins up a bit faster and goes into post....any ideas?

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reset bios?


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im guesssing POST passes and it goes into OS boot right? my initial thought might be PSU warming up with what could be a lose connection. check your BIOS version against the manufacturer see if there are many major updates available

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Sometimes my PC does the POST twice for some reason, Dont know why.

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have you installed any hardware recently?

changed any usb devices around?

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had no changes of late, will try resetting bios

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What mobo you got?

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Dead bios battery apparently, will get a new one when I remember...

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