Start Up Problem

Wanton

Ok, a mate of mine recently (like a year ago ) built a PC,

Dont know too much about it, kg7 lite mother board.

Basicly. every time he tries to start it, the first time, you here the fan start up, and the hard drive start to boot, but the monitor stays off, then regular as clock work, if you turn it off and straight back on it starts up fine.

any ideas, suggestions?

Webmonkey

Sure the graphics card is in correctly..

AGP graphics cards sometimes seem that they are in but they actually need to go in another bit. This often happened me several times :rolleyes:

Wanton

Oh i wish it was that easy.

He has had 3 different graphics cards, most recently a gforce 2 mx 200.

I an identical card and have no problems, and this seems a bit to regular to be just not plugged in properly.

EVERY time he starts it the first time it wont work and second time does.

Not very much info I know, but its all he gave me, i think he has tried to upgrade the bios, not sure if he was able or if it would even have any effect?

carbsy

lol , I have that problem with an Abit KT7 and a Coolermaster ATC-201 case , can't work it out either ... But it's been like this for over a year now

carb.

Wanton

Kg7 here, in some piece of sh*t case from some previous case he had.

would just love to get it sorted for him

Wanton

Anyone esle ttmeet a problem like this before?

And more importantly anyone solve it??