not powering up with first attempt

working on a gateway essential 633c with ME. machine has a problem firing up meaning that it takes around 10 times of powering up and down before it finally kicks in and goes into windows.

have run w.d. diags full on the hard drive and all comes back just fine no errors. have resided all connections, have reset cmos. when i run a post card test it is giving me a code that indicates a problem with the cpu but eventually the machine does fire up. hearing no post codes.

was leaning toward the hard drive but when diags came back okay now am a little stumped.

any ideas ????

 

Hi ggh,

I would physically remove any "added" hardware and try (may need to reset CMOS again).

If it uses a "restore" disk, the Master Boot Record may be corrupted. Time for a backup and reinstall.

Matt

 

it doesnt even boot with a new hard drive. only thing havent replaced is the cpu and mainboard. everything else I replaced with a known good part - memory, h.d., psu everything. post card indicates the cpu is a problem unfortunately these post card arent very specific just says cpu problem. have reset cmos a couple times. has to be the cpu or combination with the board.

thanks for input.

 

Mine has begun doing that from time to time (on,off, on,off about 5 or 6 times before "catching" and booting up) and I had pushed the power button only once. I thought it was a power supply problem and I'm currently waiting to hear back from Antec. Let me know what you find... and I'll post what Antec tells me...

 

i thought it might also be the power supply but i switched with a known good one and still had the same problem. thought also maybe the switch but did a direct connect and still the same problem. only thing left is the board or the cpu or combination of both. machine i was working on is 5 years old and even gateway didnt want to fix their machine so was able to give them a machine p3/500 that I upgraded big time for less than what gateway wanted to sell them the same machine so now I will dismantle the good parts and trash the rest.

when I thought it was the psu i put on my tester and it showed the same readout that dell psu's do. my guess gateway does their own psu's and cross wires them like dell does but my other psu gave the same results.

let me know what antec says they normally have good psu's.

 

How did you do a direct connect for your pwr sply? Maybe I should try that...

 

what i meant is i disconnected the wires from the plug and made the connection without the use of the front panel button thinking that maybe the button was malfunctioning.