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Thread ID: 64912	2006-01-02 01:20:00	New Computer Build	maco (9521)	Press F1

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417241	2006-01-02 01:20:00	Hi all!! I am a new member that has been looking around for awhile now. I have had a computer for 8 years now and have just started to play around with them myself about 2 years ago. I have 5 computers at this time 4 that are wired threw a router all hooked to a Comcast. 1 is a Laptop I take to work. I have 2 HP's 500 mhz, 1 Emachine 2.4 ghz, 233 mhz Toshiba laptop, and a Dell 4400 1.6 ghz Ok so I know whats the question!! The Dell's mother board went, I confirmed this with a Dell Tec and a friend that no's a bit about computers, but lives 1500 miles away. So I have decided that it was time that I try my hand at building my own computer. So I did! Tiger Direct Case ASUS K8V-X SE mother board AMD Sempron 3000+ (1.8 ghz) 2 X 512 Kingston PC 3200 DDR Ram Wester Dig 160 gig Hard Drive Soundblaster Live audio NVIDI GeForce with TV out Acer 52X CD Rom Sony DRU-800 DVD burner Zoom Modem Linksys 10/100 Floppy XP Pro Now the small problem, on start up the Asus comes up and stays for like 20 seconds, the the screen goes blank with a cursor, and then stays for yet another 30 seconds, then starts normal and all is good. I called Asus andd they said to turn on quick start in the bios, which I did but no makes a difference?? I can call them again but just wanted to know what you guys think? From the push of the button to windows is about 1 1/2 min, seems to me it could be better?? Thanks all!!	maco (9521)
417242	2006-01-02 01:39:00	For the hardware you got listed, this seems way too long. It sounds like something is "timing out." In other words, Windows is trying to start something, waits then gives up. Something stupid: The BIOS can be set to start from various media. It can slow down the boot if it's not set to "hard disk" first. is there any CD / DVD in the drive when you boot? Typically you press the "del" key when the PC start to get into BIOS, but it varies. After Window's boot, you may want to look in two places: the device manager and the event viewer. They are both in the same general area. Right-click my computer and choose "manage" When you click on "Device Manager", the tree should have two level, your PC, and various categories, such as "Computer" and "Disk drives". There shouldn't be an exclamation point next to anyhting. Under "System Tools", expand the "Event Viewer" tree, and then "system" You should see a lot of "Information" events, but hopefully no warnings or errors. A PC will boot quite happily with many error events, but in a perfect world, there should be only information events.	kingdragonfly (309)
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