Reboot On Cold Start Only

Jediracer · #1 11-06-2007, 10:31 AM

Hello to all!!

My issue is, i have a rebooting problem only on a cold start. Once the system is up and running all is OK. I have Windows 2K on my main drive and XP and my slave drive. This problem has surfaced only in the last week.I'm running an older MOBO and CPU. It is an ASUS A7A266 with an AMD Athlon XP 1.333MHZ chip and 1 Gig of RAM. This set up and been faithful for years. I have scanned several times for viruses with AVG, McAfee in DOS mode and F-Prot. Nothing shows up. I have also sweeped the system with Webroot's Spysweeper. It also comes up clean. Could it be possible that the MOBO is finally giving out? Any assistance would be AWESOME!!!!

Thanks.
Jediracer.

snowmonkey · #2 11-06-2007, 02:31 PM

Did you mean to say....Booting on Cold Start rather then rebooting ? if you are rebooting then it mean your system is up already!!!!

I would check for blown cap (ready to pop....look for balljing) in the power supply......or you could only have problem with the power switch.

Cheers

Jediracer · #3 11-06-2007, 04:51 PM

You are correct. Sorry. It happens only on start up(boot), not on rebooting. Would a bulging Cap not be a problem once the system is up and running? One would think if a cap is Blown(bulging), that the power supply wouldn't even power up.

Regards.
Jediracer.

snowmonkey · #4 11-13-2007, 03:07 PM

No true.....If there are more then one blown cap (4 or 5) then I can see it not starting at all,,,,but one cap with bulged-up head means it will cut the power when heated up.......I have seen it many times

Cheers

Disk_Contented · #5 11-20-2007, 07:19 AM

If there are more then one blown cap (4 or 5) then I can see it not starting at all,,,,but one cap with bulged-up head means it will cut the power when heated up.

Not necessarily.

I suspect the PSU. Try a substitute.