I am kinda technical but have a life. My problem is a my son’s ex gaming dual core many GHz RAM stuffed PC (which has a serious graphics card from NVIDIA) he made himself with an ASUS motherboard. He doesn’t have a life. It used to work OK. My wife now uses it. I just fixed a long running boot.ini invalid problem (rebuilt the file) hoping the below problem would finally be solved as well. Its still there. PROBLEM
It works OK – once its started. If its shut down its often impossible to restart it for about 1 hour, and it has to be switched off at the power switch after shut down for that to work, not just left quiescent. If its left the hour plus switched off and then switched back on at the power switch it will boot first time every time.
It will also will restart when running no problem.
If an attempt is made before the hour or so , when you switch mains power on the little lights in the KB flash and the Logitech WIreless Mouse driver green light illuminates, but nothing happens when you push the start button. No lights inside, no whirring things. No boot. This failed start also seems to reset the 1 hour time delay in failing to start the PC.
Flakier behaviour: If you catch it fast on the button as the fan dies after shutdown it may restart (when their is residual charge and some back emf in the heavier drain components?). Also If one is very lucky by constant pushing of the start button while switching the power on and off it MAY fire up after a recent shut down. But not when you really need it to.
Sounds like a PSU problem but maybe something going on with too much drain? I would like to know what controls the PSU actually booting itself when the button is pushed? I really need someone who has had this problem to solve.
Any ideas? I can answer the inevitable questions, BTW can I get config info from a software tool in XP somewhere? Can rip it apart but it ain’t broke/as in unusable.
I’m more of a Mac user so not used to such problems and the idea of a hobbyist building a high technology device from a bag of vaguely compatible bits with the odd fatal incompatibility sounds like an unnatural act with sub systems to me 🙂
Thanks for any inspired or even vaguely relevant ideas.
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