Problems with Cold Startups

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Recently, I have been having problems with starting up my PC after is
has been turned off for me the 1 hour. The only error I receive is
Invalid boot diskette insert boot diskette in A: sometimes. If I take
and turn if off disconnect the drive and power and the plug it back in
it starts up fine. I have ran WD DATA Lifeguard on the drives nothing
shows. I have tried multiple drives same things. Have wrote full O's to
the drive reinstalled just OS and same thing occurs. Sometime I get it
started after about two or three attempts.

This morning what it did after about 30 minutes is it rebooted itself
then I got the Invalid Boot Diskette message. Did my power off and
unplugged and plugged back in start up fine.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
Ron

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (More info?)

Shawn Winget wrote:

> If your machine is a gateway socket A athlon, there was an issue like that
> with these early on that is resolved by updating the bios.
>
> "RDBrimmer" <ronb21@att.net> wrote in message
> news:apy8d.491305$OB3.162818@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>
>>Recently, I have been having problems with starting up my PC after is has
>>been turned off for me the 1 hour. The only error I receive is Invalid
>>boot diskette insert boot diskette in A: sometimes. If I take and turn if
>>off disconnect the drive and power and the plug it back in it starts up
>>fine. I have ran WD DATA Lifeguard on the drives nothing shows. I have
>>tried multiple drives same things. Have wrote full O's to the drive
>>reinstalled just OS and same thing occurs. Sometime I get it started after
>>about two or three attempts.
>>
>>This morning what it did after about 30 minutes is it rebooted itself then
>>I got the Invalid Boot Diskette message. Did my power off and unplugged
>>and plugged back in start up fine.
>>
>>Any ideas or suggestions?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ron
>
>
>

System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
Gateway E-4600 4000762
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.90 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
Serial Number: IMGB14421406
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001

Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 (More info?)

I had a lower version of that model (1.4Ghz) and my boot and reboot issues
were faulty ram. Try memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com/), it'll test the
ram for problems.

Smith

"RDBrimmer" <ronb21@att.net> wrote in message
news:b%z8d.491751$OB3.485171@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> Shawn Winget wrote:
>
>> If your machine is a gateway socket A athlon, there was an issue like
>> that with these early on that is resolved by updating the bios.
>>
>> "RDBrimmer" <ronb21@att.net> wrote in message
>> news:apy8d.491305$OB3.162818@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>
>>>Recently, I have been having problems with starting up my PC after is has
>>>been turned off for me the 1 hour. The only error I receive is Invalid
>>>boot diskette insert boot diskette in A: sometimes. If I take and turn if
>>>off disconnect the drive and power and the plug it back in it starts up
>>>fine. I have ran WD DATA Lifeguard on the drives nothing shows. I have
>>>tried multiple drives same things. Have wrote full O's to the drive
>>>reinstalled just OS and same thing occurs. Sometime I get it started
>>>after about two or three attempts.
>>>
>>>This morning what it did after about 30 minutes is it rebooted itself
>>>then I got the Invalid Boot Diskette message. Did my power off and
>>>unplugged and plugged back in start up fine.
>>>
>>>Any ideas or suggestions?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Ron
>>
>>
>>
>
> System Model
> Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600)
> Gateway E-4600 4000762
> Processor a Main Circuit Board b
> 1.90 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
> 8 kilobyte primary memory cache
> 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache
> Board: Intel Corporation D850GB AAA49507-904
> Serial Number: IMGB14421406
> Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
> BIOS: Intel Corp. GB85010A.15A.0046.P13.0108201551 08/20/2001