Re: Start up from cold problem

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From: Mary Sauer (laserdog_at_mycolumbus.rr.com)
Date: 03/02/04 

Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 05:48:42 -0500

There is an update for your motherboard here, has a 02/11/04 time stamp.
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=15&l3_id=20&m_id=1&f_name=P4C81015.zip~zaqwedc 

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"Alex" <ashley.riot@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:591d01c4003d$e8e2a8b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi everyone
>
> I'm currently experiencing the following problems when I
> switch no my PC and was wondering if someone could give me
> any hints & help to what I should be looking at to solve
> the problem:
>
> Switch On PC from cold
> No signal to the monitor but the PC appears to be going
> through the boot up sequence (i.e. drive light up one at a
> time, hard drive actives).
>
> Restart 1
> Motherboard splash screen appears on the monitor and
> system hangs (pressing the DEL button does not enter bios
> setup)
>
> Restart 2
> Motherboard splash screen appears, PC hangs but this time
> the DEL key allows you to enter the bios settings.  Check
> the bios settings to find they have changed, not always,
> the same changes but it appears that RAID and Boot
> settings are affected the most.  Change the settings and
> Exit.
>
> Restart 3
> Splash screen appears followed by, safe mode selection
> screen.  Sometimes, choosing start in Safe Mode or Start
> Normally will work and windows will start, and once
> started I can restart the PC as many times as like without
> any problems.
>
> However, what's happening now is from the safe mode
> selection screen it tries to boot windows and then
> displays a blue screen stating that there has been a fatal
> driver conflict and the system freezes.
>
> Restart 4
> After the system freeze the PC boots to the safe mode
> selection screen and freezes as soon as I select an
> option.  Even if I wait for the timer to hit zero it
> freezes, that's where I got stuck.
>
>
>
> Background history:
> The PC is just over a year old and has been working
> trouble free up to this point, no new hardware has been
> installed since I built the PC (so not sure how I can have
> a driver conflict now).  The latest software was installed
> last November (Office 2003 and Studio MX 2004).
>
> Operating system is Windows XP Pro with SP1
> Motherboard is an Asus P4C800 Deluxe
> Graphics card is Asus V9560 Videosuite
> Memory = 2Gb of DDR 270 Ram
> Hard Drive is a 200Gb Diamond Max9
> 1 Samsung DVD drive
> 1 Samsung DVD/ CDRW drive
> 1 Sony DRU500A DVD rewriter
>
> As I said earlier, all I need is hints to what the problem
> might be (hardware, software etc) I don't expect an
> outright solution.
>
> Hope someone can point me in the right direction
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Alex
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