Boot up stalls at detection screen

[Kimberly]

Hello All,

I just purchased a complete computer system, from a fairly
reputable company. Its a pentium 2.8 800fsb, 80gb hardrive
1 gb ram, nvidia 128 quadro video card, intel mother
board, 420 enlight power supply. The problem that I am
having is that I turn off my surge suppressor when I am
done using my computer for the day. (Belkin suppressor)
The next time I go to use my computer it wont boot up the
first time I power up. It stalls at the screen that shows
the keyboard detection and all the other stuff. I then
need to reboot. Then it works fine. This is a little
ridiculous. Has anyone had this problem?

 

[Brian]

Obvious question first, do you shut down Windows before you turn off the
surge suppresser? Windows needs to save information that is cached by
shutting itself down before you power down. If you do not do this you
will eventually corrupt something (you hard drive, the registry, etc.)
and will be unable to boot at all.

 

[Kimberly]

Yes, I do shut down properly, going to the start button
and allowing windows to shut down on its own. I don't turn
the surge suppressor off right away either. I let the
system have a few moments.

 

[Brian]

Next question. Is it stalling after you get the Starting Windows screens
or during the BIOS POST checks? If it is during the BIOS part, it
probably is not Windows that has the problem but something in the BIOS
configuration. Unfortunately I can't help you much there.

 

[Kimberly]

Its stalling durning the bios post check, it stops on the
first screen. When boots up correctly, the screen after
the normal stall point is a very fast flash of what I
think is hardware detection. This problem is directly
releated to when the computer is starved of power for any
amount of time, if I unplug it or turn off the power strip.

 

[Brian]

Sounds like the CMOS battery needs replacing.

Its stalling durning the bios post check, it stops on the
first screen. When boots up correctly, the screen after
the normal stall point is a very fast flash of what I
think is hardware detection. This problem is directly
releated to when the computer is starved of power for any
amount of time, if I unplug it or turn off the power strip.

 

[Kimberly]

Thanks, I will look into this.

-----Original Message-----
Sounds like the CMOS battery needs replacing.

.

 

[Kenny]

I too use a Belkin, no problems with power but I do notice a 3Kbps drop in
connection speed when modem is plugged into it.