PC Won't Boot From Cold!

[Lee Grant]

Hi there,

A friend of mine has a PC which will not boot from 'cold' - after several
resets it eventually boots!

It has:

Twin AMD 1800+
256 MB Ram
Two HDD (Striping)
1 CDRW
1 DVD
1 DVD-RAM

I don't know the motherboard manufacturer but my initial instinct is that
the Power Supply Unit isn't big enough to take all these optical drives (I
think it is a 350w supply) - would that cause this problem?

Any help would really be appreciated!

Cheers

Lee

 

[Strontium]

First: Describe "won't boot". No POST? No video? What?

Second: More detailed system information would help.

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Lee Grant stood up at show-n-tell, in [email protected],
and said:

 

[Lee Grant]

Sorry,

What happens is that the PC will boot to the Windows Loading Screen (the
black one with the little bar on it!) and then hangs. After a restart it
may (or may not) load into Windows!

I'm strumped!

 

[Shep©]

Hi there,

A friend of mine has a PC which will not boot from 'cold' - after several
resets it eventually boots!

It has:

Twin AMD 1800+
256 MB Ram
Two HDD (Striping)
1 CDRW
1 DVD
1 DVD-RAM

I don't know the motherboard manufacturer but my initial instinct is that
the Power Supply Unit isn't big enough to take all these optical drives (I
think it is a 350w supply) - would that cause this problem?

Any help would really be appreciated!

Cheers

Lee

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