Hiya, The past 3 weeks or so my PC has been very strange to boot, I'll shows the steps which I have to do in order for it to start up and not have a black screen. 1) Turn on PC, leave for 5 seconds 2) Pull power cable out 3) Put PSU switch to off 4) Put PSU switch to on 5) Put power cable back in 6) Turn on PC If I don't do that, I receive a C1 error which as far as I know is memory related, but why does this happen? surely if it was memory it just wouldn't boot. TIA
Does it stay running after you get it into the OS? Does the procedure you mention cause the CMOS to load defaults? How many DIMMs do you have in the system? It could be CMOS getting corrupted, or maybe it's a power instability that affects the RAM when you try to reboot. Assuming the board in question is the one in your sig, it looks like the BIOS is hanging when trying to transition to the next phase after the initial boot code. To save space, as much code as possible is compressed, but the code that starts the CPU, programs the critical registers to set up memory, and memory detection can't be compressed. So after the BIOS has discovered all the memory, it will have to get the compressed stuff from the flash part decompressed into memory. It looks like something in this process is failing, and may be that the RAM is not completely stable yet unless you do that procedure you detailed. It could be the RAM aging, the RAM getting hot, the power supply no longer being totally stable, or possibly even that the NB is not running as cool as it use to.
Well, I finally found what the problem was this lunchtime. I tried to boot the PC up, but nothing and only a red dot was showing on the mobo (that that time I was shitting myself), but I just had the idea of changing the power cable, so I took the one from a PS3 I am borrowing and put it in the PC and it booted up, I would of never thought that a dodgy power cable would of caused the problems.
