My guess is that this is a weak circuit trace on the motherboard. When it
is cold it is not making good contact but after the circuit board heats and
expands you have good contact. I have an old AST 486 that does something
similar. When I first turn it on Post won't start...but as soon as I power
off / power on everything is fine. This has been going on for three years
.... I have pulled every card and changed every device.....I finally gave
up and accepted this idiosyncrasy.

m

>I've got a little computer here that is driving me nuts.  When I "chilly"
>cold first boot the computer, (after a long period of time, hence "chilly"),
>I will boot the computer and it will freeze just after loading the mouse
>drivers, (confirmed with step-by-step start-up.)  At this point I must
>literally cut power to the machine, (reset and power ATX style switch does
>not work.)  Once I re-introduce power the dang thing works fine no matter
>how many times I boot, shut-down and re-boot.  Any suggestions on how to
>diagnose, or isolate this little quirk?

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