Son Goku
12-23-04, 12:05 AM
OK, I started noticing this, this past summer. When I went away for the family reunion, I shut everything down, turned everything off in my appt (accept the air conditioning which I just turned up some to about 75-77 degrees or so), so as not to waste power when I wasn't here.
When I came back the following week, upon booting I didn't get video initially on the monitor. I tried re-seating the gfx card (though nothing should have been moved when I was gone, plugging the monitor cable back in, etc), and nothing.
Turned out, if coming from a cold boot, the gfx won't come up right away during the boot process as they previously did, but only starts too during Windows loading. This is not how things used to be. From a warm boot, the post messages display and all as normal. Also, the gfx are rather darker then normal until it's been up for awhile now.
However, if the monitor is turned off and turned back on latter, this isn't an issue, as the gfx will come right up, regardless of how long the monitor has been powered down. I thought maybe the monitor was going at first (had this monitor since 1999), however given this, I think the monitor can safely be ruled out.
I thought it might be due to...well since some people I knew died, I didn't have access to an air compressor so it had been awhile since I could completely dust the computer. The CPU fan started sounding a tad bit off, though I dusted all the fans out and around the case with some canned air...and things sounded normal again. The video not comming right up during post anymore not alleviated.
Could this be due to a PSU that's starting to go (I've had this PSU since I got an Athlon 700 slot A around the time the first Athlons had come out)? Motherboard? hmm
OK, the comp is
Athlon XP 1900+
Asus A7N266-E (using a first generation nForce 420-D chipset)
512 MB (256 x 2) Corsair XMS 2400 CAS 2
Visiontek Radeon 9600
old 400 watt PSU I had previously (mentioned above)
OCZ Gladiator copper heat sink, with arctic silver II thermal paste
Temperature wise, I measured the thing at about 44 C CPU temp under load, and about 29 or 30 C case temp using Asus's monitoring tool for this. Hadn't loaded that in awhile though, and pretty much when I was building it and all. Been through several installs since.
When I came back the following week, upon booting I didn't get video initially on the monitor. I tried re-seating the gfx card (though nothing should have been moved when I was gone, plugging the monitor cable back in, etc), and nothing.
Turned out, if coming from a cold boot, the gfx won't come up right away during the boot process as they previously did, but only starts too during Windows loading. This is not how things used to be. From a warm boot, the post messages display and all as normal. Also, the gfx are rather darker then normal until it's been up for awhile now.
However, if the monitor is turned off and turned back on latter, this isn't an issue, as the gfx will come right up, regardless of how long the monitor has been powered down. I thought maybe the monitor was going at first (had this monitor since 1999), however given this, I think the monitor can safely be ruled out.
I thought it might be due to...well since some people I knew died, I didn't have access to an air compressor so it had been awhile since I could completely dust the computer. The CPU fan started sounding a tad bit off, though I dusted all the fans out and around the case with some canned air...and things sounded normal again. The video not comming right up during post anymore not alleviated.
Could this be due to a PSU that's starting to go (I've had this PSU since I got an Athlon 700 slot A around the time the first Athlons had come out)? Motherboard? hmm
OK, the comp is
Athlon XP 1900+
Asus A7N266-E (using a first generation nForce 420-D chipset)
512 MB (256 x 2) Corsair XMS 2400 CAS 2
Visiontek Radeon 9600
old 400 watt PSU I had previously (mentioned above)
OCZ Gladiator copper heat sink, with arctic silver II thermal paste
Temperature wise, I measured the thing at about 44 C CPU temp under load, and about 29 or 30 C case temp using Asus's monitoring tool for this. Hadn't loaded that in awhile though, and pretty much when I was building it and all. Been through several installs since.