Boot up Problems

[Richard]

I just built a new computer, it seems to have boot up problems: blank screen,
nothing showing on display, the hard drive light flickers once and that is
it, however after pressing the reset button, everything boots up fine and
windows runs OK. This happens about 50% of the time, I don't think it is
windows issue because this happened when there was no operating system on the
hard drive. I suspect the video card or the hard drive. Any sugestions would
be welcomed.

 

[Nonny]

I just built a new computer, it seems to have boot up problems: blank screen,
nothing showing on display, the hard drive light flickers once and that is
it, however after pressing the reset button, everything boots up fine and
windows runs OK. This happens about 50% of the time, I don't think it is
windows issue because this happened when there was no operating system on the
hard drive. I suspect the video card or the hard drive. Any sugestions would
be welcomed.

You're right: it's not Windows.

I doubt that it's the video card either because if it were
malfunctioning, you'd hear some definite "beeps" from the speaker in
your case.

If it was the hard drive, your BIOS would still work and you'd should
get POST progress messages, but it wouldn't see your hard drive.

Open the thing up and wiggle everything (POWER DISCONNECTED) to make
sure it's all seated properly.

 

[Cameron Snyder]

Check your motherboard standoffs also. If they are seated just a little off
they can ground out your motherboard intermittently.