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Terry Pinnell
First, apologies for the cross-posting, but I have no idea at all what
the cause of this might be, so would appreciate as much feedback as
possible please.
When I try to do a cold reboot on my 4 year-old 'Mesh Athlon 1800 PC',
it powers up for only a second or two then closes down. Pressing the
power-on button then has no effect at all! Eventually, after various
arbitrary (desperate) operations like pulling the plug at PC and/or
mains socket, repeatedly pressing Power-On, taking the side off and
peering inside, praying, etc, it *does* restart, but goes straight to
BIOS instead of WinXP Home. There I read a message to the effect that
it is starting in 'Safe Mode' (?) because it detected the wrong CPU
speed. Yet the setting is the usual one, 1533 MHz. There are only two
other options, 1300 MHz (I think), and 'Manual'. After pressing F10 to
'Save and restart' the BIOS, XP loads and all then seems well.
I rarely power off my PC anyway, but now I'm reluctant to do so at
all!
In case it's relevant, I should also mention that the only other time
I ever saw this message was a month ago when my CPU fan failed, and I
got the same symptoms on restarting. But, after repairing the fan, I
installed Motherboard Monitor, and now I can see my fan is running OK.
I'm not sure what other info might be useful, but FWIW here is an
extract from my system spec:
CPU = AMD Athlon XP1800+ with 512MB PC2100 DDR memory, m/b = ASUS
A7A266-E, BIOS = Award Software with ASUS A7A266-E ACPI BIOS v 1009,
System Chipset = M1647 ALiMAGiK 1 AGP System Controller, Buses =
AGP/PCI/USB, L2 On-board Cache = 256kB ECC synchronous write-back.
Any advice greatly appreciated please.
the cause of this might be, so would appreciate as much feedback as
possible please.
When I try to do a cold reboot on my 4 year-old 'Mesh Athlon 1800 PC',
it powers up for only a second or two then closes down. Pressing the
power-on button then has no effect at all! Eventually, after various
arbitrary (desperate) operations like pulling the plug at PC and/or
mains socket, repeatedly pressing Power-On, taking the side off and
peering inside, praying, etc, it *does* restart, but goes straight to
BIOS instead of WinXP Home. There I read a message to the effect that
it is starting in 'Safe Mode' (?) because it detected the wrong CPU
speed. Yet the setting is the usual one, 1533 MHz. There are only two
other options, 1300 MHz (I think), and 'Manual'. After pressing F10 to
'Save and restart' the BIOS, XP loads and all then seems well.
I rarely power off my PC anyway, but now I'm reluctant to do so at
all!
In case it's relevant, I should also mention that the only other time
I ever saw this message was a month ago when my CPU fan failed, and I
got the same symptoms on restarting. But, after repairing the fan, I
installed Motherboard Monitor, and now I can see my fan is running OK.
I'm not sure what other info might be useful, but FWIW here is an
extract from my system spec:
CPU = AMD Athlon XP1800+ with 512MB PC2100 DDR memory, m/b = ASUS
A7A266-E, BIOS = Award Software with ASUS A7A266-E ACPI BIOS v 1009,
System Chipset = M1647 ALiMAGiK 1 AGP System Controller, Buses =
AGP/PCI/USB, L2 On-board Cache = 256kB ECC synchronous write-back.
Any advice greatly appreciated please.