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What causes a pc to take five minutes to reboot?

System was working fine for two years, until now.

System will do a cold boot, provided that it has been off for a while.

System will also now not boot from power disconect/reconect.

I have already tried flashing bios and reinstalling Winxp.

Ram tested fine.

System specs:

Athlon 1800+ XP
512 meg ram
epox 8kha+
geforce 3
game theater xp
ibm 60g hard drive
sparkle 400 watt ps
win xp pro

The bios code on the epox board says "FF" until it finally starts boot
process.

Could the bios chip be going bad or maybe the battery?

How does one go about testing a power supply?
 
Yoric said:
What causes a pc to take five minutes to reboot?

System was working fine for two years, until now.

System will do a cold boot, provided that it has been off for a while.

System will also now not boot from power disconect/reconect.

I have already tried flashing bios and reinstalling Winxp.

Ram tested fine.

System specs:

Athlon 1800+ XP
512 meg ram
epox 8kha+
geforce 3
game theater xp
ibm 60g hard drive
sparkle 400 watt ps
win xp pro

The bios code on the epox board says "FF" until it finally starts boot
process.

Could the bios chip be going bad or maybe the battery?

How does one go about testing a power supply?
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You don't test a power supply. Yeah, you can check the outputs with a
multimeter, but bad power supplies will most often check out OK using a
multimeter. All electronics work more efficiently when cold. Your symptom
therefore points to a "heat" problem, meaning that one of your components is
not operating well at normal operating temperatures. If I had to guess, I'd
say your power supply is failing, OR your CPU is getting too hot. What kind
of CPU temps. is your BIOS reporting? -Dave
 
If you think the battery may be getting weak, get another one and try it,
they are cheap.

Dashi
 
What causes a pc to take five minutes to reboot?
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Because it needs to launch 23788 copies of some virus?
System was working fine for two years, until now.

System will do a cold boot, provided that it has been off for a while.

System will also now not boot from power disconect/reconect.

I have already tried flashing bios and reinstalling Winxp.

Ram tested fine.

System specs:

Athlon 1800+ XP
512 meg ram
epox 8kha+
geforce 3
game theater xp
ibm 60g hard drive
sparkle 400 watt ps
win xp pro

The bios code on the epox board says "FF" until it finally starts boot
process.

Could the bios chip be going bad or maybe the battery?

How does one go about testing a power supply?
Click to expand...

I see no reason why slow boot should be caused by bad PSU, overheating
or bios? It makes little sense, but ok, problems are like that
sometimes. ;-)

No, slow boot suggests slow diskreads. You may not have noticed this
problem during use, but you will, as it gets worse.
Save off all your important data (gamesaves ;-) , etc) immediately,
because I think your hd is giving up.

Try running scandisk. My tip is that your IBM won't survive a surface
check.

ancra
 
my first guess would be insufficient cooling of the processor if its a
hardware problem.

or lots of garbage software clogging up the system if its a software
problem.
 
It turned out to be faulty, leaking capacitors on the mother board.

Anyone with simular problems might want to check thier boards.

From what i've been reading, it's becoming a common problem for

boards about two years old, and not just the Epox ones.
 
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