PC Will Not Soft/Warm Boot

GlynD

I've bought the battery. I'll fit it in the morning. No big worries in the meantime as the PC is running fine.

GlynD

Battery bought and fitted. Easy-peasy. No obvious improvement though. The symptoms are still the same.

GlynD

From cold boot the monitor status light changes to green from orange as normal. HDD light comes on in a specific pattern and the CMOS checks and info appear on the monitor.

From warm/softboot the monitor status light switches to orange, the warning "no signal input" appears onscreen for a few seconds then the screen goes black. The disc can be heard spinning, there are some faint clicks (not reminiscent of sticking or jammed senders) and there is a brief flashing of the HDD light which then goes out. The disc continues to spin but there is no onscreen activity.

mj12_2

Not all motherboard/systems support both an S1 and S3 resume state; if yours is one of those then it won't soft boot whatever you do :-)

GlynD

mj12 wrote: »

Not all motherboard/systems support both an S1 and S3 resume state; if yours is one of those then it won't soft boot whatever you do :-)

It used to, until 3 months ago.

mj12_2

GlynD wrote: »

It used to, until 3 months ago.

won't be that then :-)

Could it be that a new piece of hardware is causing a conflict? Have you added anything recently. I only ask as when i was building a computer a few years back and combined an MSI motherboard and ASUS graphics card I also lost the ability to soft-boot with a similar issue to that you described ie the screen not initialising.

mj12_2

Ahh just rememberd how i fixed it too :-) there was an option in my bios called "recall vga bios on s3 resume" see if you have that option and if so enabling it should fix your problem

GlynD

No new hardware installed. How can I find that line in my bios? (there are limits to my capabilities LOL)

mj12_2

Urm i'm not sure where in particular it would be and no longer have that comp to check. From memory it was in the advanced cmos settings section but i really don't know where/if it would be in your bios, best thing i can suggest is to look through all the screens.

If you cmos battery failed then ur settings willl have been reset which may explain why it only became an issue 3 months ago....

Might sound blindingly obvious but have you tried removing the graphics card and cleaning the connectors with an alcohol wipe or something?

GlynD

mj12 wrote: »

Urm i'm not sure where in particular it would be and no longer have that comp to check. From memory it was in the advanced cmos settings section but i really don't know where/if it would be in your bios, best thing i can suggest is to look through all the screens.

If you cmos battery failed then ur settings willl have been reset which may explain why it only became an issue 3 months ago....

Might sound blindingly obvious but have you tried removing the graphics card and cleaning the connectors with an alcohol wipe or something?

CMOS battery didn't fail though. Replacing it had no effect but it was done because it was a cheap way of eliminating one possibility.

This MB has an integral graphics card.