[Wilcke]

Originally Posted by Reece

This problem is becoming a total pain!!
I thought I found the problem, seemed to be ok but has just shown up again, what is happening:
Normally when I start the computer after 8 seconds or so I get a beep and all is ok, I think the initial power on start works ok, but if from windows I shutdown/restart, the computer shuts down but then hangs, no beep just sits there until I hit the reset button, but not all the time, sometimes it works fine, this also goes for warm boots also if a game/program reboots the system. Thing is I'm not getting multiple beeps as though there is a problem it either powers up with a single beep or does nothing, just hangs before the beep. I thought the problem was with a pc analyzer card I removed, as it turns out this card may have been causing my Index errors when the computer doesn't restart properly, atleast that's a positive!!
The motherboard is an Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe, does anyone have any idea as to what would cause the bios to hang at a point between reset and the first beep, if I had to guess the problem I'd say that it was with the motherboard reset circuitry but it could be that the bios is failing the power-on test, what that could mean is anyones guess.
Thanks for any help.

I generally begin trouble shooting a cranky PC, by connecting the power supply to a test unit which gives you a visual representation of all the voltages on the different rails and other pertinent diagnostics. Once the PSU is considered healthy, then you can move on to checking out the MoBo, Memory and CPU in that order. The beeps on post are significant and if you go into the MoBo manual there is a chapter there on diagnosing and interpreting the beeps on post. You definately have a hardware issue, that is for sure.