A problem that manifests only during cold boots *sounds* like a
failing or inadequate power supply.  Many electromechanical devices,
such as hard drives, require a bit more power to bring up from a
standing start than to do a reset, and it may be that the sum of
these demands is just a bit more than the supply can handle.
  Replacement power supplies are, depending on capacity and features,
generally in the neighborhood of $30-60.  I look for one that is UL
approved, and maybe 10% greater wattage than the unit I'm replacing.

David Gillett


On 3 Oct 2001, at 14:26, Edwin Bogert wrote:

> Here's one for all you thinkers.---When I first power up my computer, it goes about halfway thru the boot to the windows logo screen and then the screen turns black with an hourglass icon in the middle and just stays there. When I push the reset button it boots up to the safe mode screen. If I
select normal mode it boots up to normal and from then everything is alright. Then, when I go to Start/ restart, it boots up normally.  In other words, the only time this happens is when I do a cold power-up. My system consists of the following:
> Acorp mobo with Via Apollo pro 133a chipset---via 686B
> 64mb sdram
> celeron 633mhz fcpga
> SB Live Value Sound
> Diamond S540 Stealth III display adaptor
> Maxtor 27.5gb HD--with 2 identified bad sectors totalling 2.48mb
>
> Don't know wether the bad sectors could be causing the problems or not.

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