I have a very irritating intimitant problem.

My routine is thus:

Turn on power at wall
Allow 20 seconds for cable modem etc.. to power up
Turn on power to PC
Fans start, DVD & CDRW checked... light on... hdd light comes on (and sometimes stays on)
No monitor boot up or video bios (obviously)
Power off
repeat above between 1-10 times until PC boots up properly

What on earth is happening. Sometimes it boots first time for days (like this last week) and today it failed to boot 10 times!!!

I have changed my memory (256 - 768), motherboard (MSI - ASUS), CPU (AMD 1.33 - 2000XP) and chucked out a sound card and network card and the same problem still occurs.

I can only summise that the GFX card or monitor is partially kaput.

Asus A7N8X Deluxe MB
AMD 2000XP + Zalman Flower
768 MB Ram
Inno3d GF3 Ti 200
Maxtor 40 & 8GB drives
Aopen DVD (spits) & Lite ON CDRW
Antec 330W ATX PSU
ADI 17 CRT

Needless to say I will be purchasing an ATI Radeon 9500 PRO or 9700 soon so things may improve....

Maybe your wall socket is not pumping enough juice. Try a different area of your house, seen it happen before. :)

Unreliable power up is common with a PSU
that is marginal for the system. It might
pay to get a quality PSU ie Antec Sparkle
or Enermax for example.
Joe

hi Philash

did the above solutions solve your problem?

i have a similar problem and would like to know.

OK so far it seems that it's the GFX card not initialing the monitor properly....Having said that the problem is intimitant so it hasn't not booted up yet! If it does fail to boot up again I can only assume that it's the monitor.

It is common to think its the monitor. But in actuality it is more likely the Power supply, you haven't replaced it yet, right??