When I boot up my PC there is no signal to the monitor and I do not hear any POST beeps. If I wait a while (it varies a lot; 30 sec to 3 mins +) it eventually starts up and works fine - never crashed. This is a new PC and the prob started to happen 1 week after I purchased it. It is getting worse and worse. I will take it back if I can't get the prob fixed myself. I checked that all cables are seated properly and heat does not seem to be a problem according to the BIOS reading and ASUS PC Probe. The specs are:
Intel Pentium 4 2.60C GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 512 KB Cache, Hyper-Threading
ASUS P4C800 Deluxe, Intel 875P Chipset
Antec Performance Plus 1080AMG with Windowed Slide Panel
Antec TruePower 430 Watt
Corsair 1024 MB TWINX XMS3200 400 MHz CL2
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Atlantis Pro 128 MB DDR
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Creative Inspire 6.1 6600
Seagate SATA 80 GB, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache
Lite-On 40X/16X CD/DVD
Lite-On 32X12X40 CDRW
Sony 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
Logitech Elite Keyboard
Logitech MX500 Optical Mouse
Intel Pentium 4 2.60C GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 512 KB Cache, Hyper-Threading
ASUS P4C800 Deluxe, Intel 875P Chipset
Antec Performance Plus 1080AMG with Windowed Slide Panel
Antec TruePower 430 Watt
Corsair 1024 MB TWINX XMS3200 400 MHz CL2
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Atlantis Pro 128 MB DDR
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2
Creative Inspire 6.1 6600
Seagate SATA 80 GB, 7200 RPM, 8 MB Cache
Lite-On 40X/16X CD/DVD
Lite-On 32X12X40 CDRW
Sony 3.5" Floppy Disk Drive
Logitech Elite Keyboard
Logitech MX500 Optical Mouse