Auto adjust in progress.

Hi, If your pc suddenly starts to act strange and keeps displaying the following message, "AUTO ADJUST IN PROGRESS ", it is most likely caused by a problem with the installed system memory.
This problem usually occurs immediately after a power failure or power surge.
There are a few recent quotes suggesting the problem relates to monitor errors or even a virus, in general however this is incorrect.
I have suffered with this very problem, and after many sleepless nights and much head scratching, identified exactly where the problem originates.
For the solution, remove all installed memory and boot the system up, after the audio bleeps to inform a system error, turn back off.
Now select one strip of memory, re install and then re boot.
If the pc still remains unstable or does not boot correctly, then this could identify this strip of memory to be at fault, in which case, switch off, remove and replace with another strip of memory, once you have identified the rogue memory and removed it from your system, you will find that this will have sorted the problem out.
Cause of problem: memory shorted by power surge.
Always remember that once you have shelled out all that hard earned cash for your pc, it's worth spending just a little more and buy a good surge protector to plug your pc into, then this problem could have been prevented, but like me, a hard lesson learned!

 

Cubemaster57,

The "AUTO ADJUST IN PROGRESS" error is reported by the monitor not the computer so I fail to see why this can be connected to RAM other than with on board graphic sharing system memory? However your advice regarding a surge protector is good and everyone should take note.

 

Yes in ordinary circumstances you are quite right, it is usually a monitor error, but I can assure you that in this particular instance this error is occuring as a direct result of a memory module being shorted due to either a power surge or power failure.
The very first thing I checked when seeing the "auto adjust in progress" on screen was all of the monitor settings and I even set it back to factory default settings, this did still not fix this problem.
Only after locating and replacing the faulty memory and then re booting was the pc fixed!
I appreciate your comments though.