Durzel
08-14-2006, 11:09 AM
I've had an Abit IC7-MAX3 motherboard for about 3 years now, possibly even longer, and I've noticed in the past couple of months despite the fact I haven't changed anything at all in my CPU settings, and I'm not overclocking anything at all (P4 3.0Ghz Northwood, 2GB OCZ RAM), it is taking ages to POST.
I'll switch the power on and about 15 seconds later I'll finally get a beep and the PC will POST. After that it behaves completely normally.
Occasionally I will boot the PC and it won't POST at all, but hitting reset usually gets it going. Sometimes it will POST but will have lost all the CMOS settings, meaning I have to redo everything.
The CMOS hasn't lost the date/time so I don't think it's the battery that is dying, though it's possible I guess.
Can anyone think of anything obvious why this might be happening? I haven't added or removed any hardware or changed any BIOS settings, it's just suddenly started doing this for no reason.
Any thoughts? Is it possible that the power connector (which is gold plated I think, a late Enermax 550w) has poor contact with the ATX socket and needs unplugging and plugging back in?
I'll switch the power on and about 15 seconds later I'll finally get a beep and the PC will POST. After that it behaves completely normally.
Occasionally I will boot the PC and it won't POST at all, but hitting reset usually gets it going. Sometimes it will POST but will have lost all the CMOS settings, meaning I have to redo everything.
The CMOS hasn't lost the date/time so I don't think it's the battery that is dying, though it's possible I guess.
Can anyone think of anything obvious why this might be happening? I haven't added or removed any hardware or changed any BIOS settings, it's just suddenly started doing this for no reason.
Any thoughts? Is it possible that the power connector (which is gold plated I think, a late Enermax 550w) has poor contact with the ATX socket and needs unplugging and plugging back in?