Resolved Long pause before booting

Hi all,
I have a Compaq EVO N610c and when I turn on the power the screen stays black for a time and then I get a row of aprox. ½ " tall vertical lines across the bottom of the screen.
After a short delay, those vertical lines become 1 solid line from left to right. It’s like it is gathering information or something. This only happens on a cold boot. If I reboot the system, it boots fine without the vertical lines.
Since it happens before it boots, I think it is a hardware problem, or it may be normal and not a problem at all.

Any idea what this is?
Running winXP Pro fully patched

Thanks
Sven

 

Thanks for the tip. I will try that later
Sven

 

I just plugged in my external monitor and the same bars are on the bottom of the screen.
Then these bars fill in to a solid line, after that it boots.
To clarify, these are not distortions of any kind.
It looks like the computer is looking for information.
I had an old computer that always told me: “verifying pool data”
It reminds me of that, but I don’t get a pop up.

Thanks
Sven

 

yes, exactly and I would like to know why I have them

 

Yes, that is it. Good to know that there is nothing to wory about
Thanks for your help
Sven

 

I have seen a similar thing with PCs which originated from a company which was loading some particular software. Have you had this PC since it was new and was it purchased for private use? I had to reformat and reinstall the operating system to get rid of it.

Also have you tried checking the BIOS settings and set it to 'Load Fail-Safe Defaults'?

 

I will check it out
Thanks