TheCoreWithin

Hey up everyone having problems with my comp when i power down and leave it off for a while it wont get past POST i have to take the battery out and leave it for quite a whiel beforte it will come back again any ideas as to the cause would be very nice.

Hard to tell, at what point is it hanging during the POST. Do you get an image? Hanging on checking SATA devices? Hanging when memory is being checked?

All that happens is the fans start and the graphics card lights up but nothing else the hard drives dont even start.

Does the screen stay black when you boot? But the best thing to do is boot with the minimum of devices connected, for example, disconnect all hard drive, cdrom. just memory cpu en graphic card. See how that goes, if that works start adding 1 device at a time and boot again. Till you find the problem.

On some graphics card you also have some light turn on when booting, you can use those for evaluation too. If you have a spare graphics card, try adding that one?

Hard to tell via a forum what your problem might be.

It's the Grinch inside

Most likely a problem with your motherboard. I don't think it's anything PSU or battery related, but it's worth a show trying it with a different PSU. You never know.

Are you getting a beep code?

Try resetting CMOS, remove and clean the connectors on memory/gfx card. I had problems with dust causing this problem before.

I am innocent!

(And unfortunately, I can't help with hardware problems, sorry :( )

No beep codes power supply is good did the same with just gcard and memory in, to get it back going i have to remove the battery clear cmos and wait for a while so all power has drained from the system it took about 4 hours the other day to get going again.

don't motherboards have reset jumpers anymore these days? would go a lot quicker then.

try a bios reset once you get in again.

Blown capasitor somewhere?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_ ... r_symptoms

MindyMcfly wrote:Blown capasitor somewhere?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_ ... r_symptoms

mmmm not seen any crazy thing is comp started today no problem.

My viewsonic monitor did similar and that was a ropey capasitor

It seems my comp is behaving itself not had a failure to post for 2 days now no idea what was causing it or how it got fixed thanks for all the replys my mind goes blank after trying so many things to find out what is wrong with my comp.

Might be a bad connection from memory for example, or GPU card. anyway, welcome back :p