Hello, I'm new to these boards and hopefully I'm posting in the correct location, but I've been this problem lately, that my computer won't boot on the first attempt. I'll press the power button and I get the green LED on front but not the red one for the hard drive, and the CD-ROM has no power. But all of the fans in the case have power, including the CPU heat sink fan, and the video card fan. But on the second or third time, it kicks on and posts and boots normally. And I haven't recently changed anything in my computer that would cause this.
And the weird thing is I've opened my computer twice now, reconnected all connections, reseated everything, except the CPU and heat sink. And after doing so my rig works fine for 1 - 2 days (boots fine on the first attempt)
Yesterday I took a leap and bought an Antec 650 Watt Power Supply after days of research, finally narrowing it done to what I thought was the solution, and alas it was not, I woke up this morning to find the new power supply did not fix my woes.
To me this seems all to fickle to try and isolate the problem, but thats probably because I'm frustrated. Does anyone have any suggestions? Or I'm I doomed to opening my case and reconnecting everything to get it working until I buy a new comp.
EDIT: If anyone wants more information I'll be happy to provide. Much thanks for any help or suggestions.
And the weird thing is I've opened my computer twice now, reconnected all connections, reseated everything, except the CPU and heat sink. And after doing so my rig works fine for 1 - 2 days (boots fine on the first attempt)
Yesterday I took a leap and bought an Antec 650 Watt Power Supply after days of research, finally narrowing it done to what I thought was the solution, and alas it was not, I woke up this morning to find the new power supply did not fix my woes.
To me this seems all to fickle to try and isolate the problem, but thats probably because I'm frustrated. Does anyone have any suggestions? Or I'm I doomed to opening my case and reconnecting everything to get it working until I buy a new comp.
EDIT: If anyone wants more information I'll be happy to provide. Much thanks for any help or suggestions.