Boot problems - monitor?

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OEM loaded XP Home - SP1 all updates in, 512mb ram, Celeron 1.2
This has been driving me insane, any help is appreciated. Occasionally on the first cold boot of the day my p.c. will not boot. It will start to boot and the monitor stays blank, but I can hear the HD spinning. I have to shut down the p.c., reboot, take last known good settings and I'm up. Any other boots that day are ok. I have even swithced monitors & cables, same issue. If it's a re-boot that day, I'm ok, the very first boot usually hangs. I've found that I can get an occasional good cold boot if I power the monitor on first, wait for it to display no-signal, then boot the p.c. Only hardware I've added is a DVD-RW about a month before this started happening, the video is on-board and I have been runing a memory upgrade about a year before I got this. I've ran Windoctor with no known issues, have current virus patterns and I'm clean and keep ad-aware patterns current and I'm clean there too. Thanks for the time.
 
d_h said:
OEM loaded XP Home - SP1 all updates in, 512mb ram, Celeron 1.2
This has been driving me insane, any help is appreciated. Occasionally on
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the first cold boot of the day my p.c. will not boot. It will start to boot
and the monitor stays blank, but I can hear the HD spinning. I have to shut
down the p.c., reboot, take last known good settings and I'm up. Any other
boots that day are ok. I have even swithced monitors & cables, same issue.
If it's a re-boot that day, I'm ok, the very first boot usually hangs. I've
found that I can get an occasional good cold boot if I power the monitor on
first, wait for it to display no-signal, then boot the p.c. Only hardware
I've added is a DVD-RW about a month before this started happening, the
video is on-board and I have been runing a memory upgrade about a year
before I got this. I've ran Windoctor with no known issues, have current
virus patterns and I'm clean and keep ad-aware patterns current and I'm
clean there too. Thanks for the time.

Instead of rebooting, have you tried turning the monitor on and off after
the computer has started the boot-up process?
 
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d_h said:
OEM loaded XP Home - SP1 all updates in, 512mb ram, Celeron 1.2
This has been driving me insane, any help is appreciated. Occasionally on
Click to expand...
the first cold boot of the day my p.c. will not boot. It will start to boot
and the monitor stays blank, but I can hear the HD spinning. I have to shut
down the p.c., reboot, take last known good settings and I'm up. Any other
boots that day are ok. I have even swithced monitors & cables, same issue.
If it's a re-boot that day, I'm ok, the very first boot usually hangs. I've
found that I can get an occasional good cold boot if I power the monitor on
first, wait for it to display no-signal, then boot the p.c. Only hardware
I've added is a DVD-RW about a month before this started happening, the
video is on-board and I have been runing a memory upgrade about a year
before I got this. I've ran Windoctor with no known issues, have current
virus patterns and I'm clean and keep ad-aware patterns current and I'm
clean there too. Thanks for the time.

Instead of rebooting, have you tried turning the monitor on and off after
the computer has started the boot-up process?



Yes, I have tried powering the monitor on/off a few times. But the boot just stops, even though the HD is spinning it never fully loads because I never hear the "welcome" .wav. CTL+ALT+DLT doesn't even respond to re-boot, I have to actually shut the power strip off, giving me the improper shut down screen on re-boot, but tht allows me to take my last know configuarion settings, and I'm back up.
 
d_h said:
----- D.Currie wrote: -----


Occasionally on
the first cold boot of the day my p.c. will not boot. It will start to boot
and the monitor stays blank, but I can hear the HD spinning. I have to shut
down the p.c., reboot, take last known good settings and I'm up. Any other
boots that day are ok. I have even swithced monitors & cables, same issue.
If it's a re-boot that day, I'm ok, the very first boot usually hangs. I've
found that I can get an occasional good cold boot if I power the monitor on
first, wait for it to display no-signal, then boot the p.c. Only hardware
I've added is a DVD-RW about a month before this started happening, the
video is on-board and I have been runing a memory upgrade about a year
before I got this. I've ran Windoctor with no known issues, have current
virus patterns and I'm clean and keep ad-aware patterns current and I'm
clean there too. Thanks for the time.

Instead of rebooting, have you tried turning the monitor on and off after
the computer has started the boot-up process?



Yes, I have tried powering the monitor on/off a few times. But the
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boot just stops, even though the HD is spinning it never fully loads because
I never hear the "welcome" .wav. CTL+ALT+DLT doesn't even respond to
re-boot, I have to actually shut the power strip off, giving me the improper
shut down screen on re-boot, but tht allows me to take my last know
configuarion settings, and I'm back up.Then the first thing I'd suspect is the power supply. But it could be other
hardware as well.
 
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