Help diagnosing occasional failure to boot

[John Carlyle-Clarke]

Occasionally (1 in 20 times) the sytem hangs with the "Abit Engineered
logo" on the screen and the BIOS code 75 on the mainboard's LED
display, which the book says is "Initialise all IDE devices".

Can anyone offer any advice for fixing or troubleshooting?

Thanks!

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ABit AV-8 3rd Eye
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (90nm)
1GB Crucial DDR400 (2x512MB)
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO AGP

Seagate Barracuda 150GB ST3160023A
NEC DVD/RW ND-3500AG

BIOS ID V2.4 (07/28/2005)
VIA HyperionPro V5.00A.0

XP PRO SP2

 

[old jon]

Occasionally (1 in 20 times) the sytem hangs with the "Abit Engineered
logo" on the screen and the BIOS code 75 on the mainboard's LED
display, which the book says is "Initialise all IDE devices".

Can anyone offer any advice for fixing or troubleshooting?

Thanks!

---------------------

ABit AV-8 3rd Eye
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (90nm)
1GB Crucial DDR400 (2x512MB)
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO AGP

Seagate Barracuda 150GB ST3160023A
NEC DVD/RW ND-3500AG

BIOS ID V2.4 (07/28/2005)
VIA HyperionPro V5.00A.0

XP PRO SP2

Hi John. It`ll cost you nothing to check in your Event viewer to see if
there are any errors\warnings showing up.
best wishes..OJ

 

[John Carlyle-Clarke]

Hi John. It`ll cost you nothing to check in your Event viewer to
see if there are any errors\warnings showing up.
best wishes..OJ

No, nothing in the Event Log :/

 

[JAD]

turn off 'fast boot' option in CMOS bios, it appears that the IDE /Sata
drive(s) are not spinning up quickly enough. This could link to a power
supply problem.