I've had a saga getting a PC - forget about the saga though:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/community/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=445275#445275
The PC has an Asus Striker Extreme mobo.
When I first turned on this new computer, it wouldn't boot - the system is getting power, the keyboard wasn't though. The fans and LEDs all work, it just didn't boot.
Googling made me aware people have had a problem with this 'CPU INIT' message with regard to booting too. However, this system has (apparantly) passed QC - it is not something I built myself.
Anybody know what the actual cause of 'CPU INIT' is - I assumed it was CPU Initialising and wondered if (bizarreley enough) the CPU had to 'warm up' before it lets the system boot.
I did actually get it to boot twice to windows and was working - the first time I used it for several hours and it worked fine. It switched on okay the following day. However, I left the PC unattended for about 5 minutes and came back to find it had powered down but the mobo was all lit up - it then went back through the booting problems.
I just got it to boot after ages and ages of trying - it made it into Windows but locked up in Windows. Now I can't get it to boot again.
It has a 700W Tagan dual engine PSU and the CPU is a Core 2 Duo 6600 - 2 x 1GB or Corsair RAM, XFX 8800 GTX.
I would have thought a 700W PSU should be okay?
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/community/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=445275#445275
The PC has an Asus Striker Extreme mobo.
When I first turned on this new computer, it wouldn't boot - the system is getting power, the keyboard wasn't though. The fans and LEDs all work, it just didn't boot.
Googling made me aware people have had a problem with this 'CPU INIT' message with regard to booting too. However, this system has (apparantly) passed QC - it is not something I built myself.
Anybody know what the actual cause of 'CPU INIT' is - I assumed it was CPU Initialising and wondered if (bizarreley enough) the CPU had to 'warm up' before it lets the system boot.
I did actually get it to boot twice to windows and was working - the first time I used it for several hours and it worked fine. It switched on okay the following day. However, I left the PC unattended for about 5 minutes and came back to find it had powered down but the mobo was all lit up - it then went back through the booting problems.
I just got it to boot after ages and ages of trying - it made it into Windows but locked up in Windows. Now I can't get it to boot again.
It has a 700W Tagan dual engine PSU and the CPU is a Core 2 Duo 6600 - 2 x 1GB or Corsair RAM, XFX 8800 GTX.
I would have thought a 700W PSU should be okay?