Just for your info - the case is happily closed.

It was a failing graphic card which caused the booting problem.
Now replaced with a new one and everything works OK.

Rolfie


"Rolfie" <rokn760@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> Hi.
>
> after having skutdown the computer for more than 15 - 30 min it won't boot
> up at all. The boot up
> does'nt get to bios startup splash screen. The power supply is on - the
> green LED is on but nothing
> happens. The LCD screen is black and not activated. No error messages like
> beeps etc.
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> If I do a direct power down with the power switch and power on again, the
> same thing will happen.
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> But if I leave it with the power on for 5 - 10 min, power off and then
> power
> on, the LCD is powered up,
> the bios splash screen comes up and then the computer goes directly into
> the bios setup screen -
> Chip configuration. Exiting the bios setup without saving, reboot and the
> computer boots up fully
> normal and windows starts in a normal way.
>
> To me it seems to be some kind of either hardware porblem and/or a bios
> problem. But what???
> No recent changes in hardware.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Rolfie
>
> MB ASUS A7M266
> CPU AMD Athlon 1400 MHz
> BIO ACPI Bios Revision 1008 Beta 002-B 08/22/2002S
> RAM 768 MB
> Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Platinum
> Video Card GeForce2 GTS
> Monitor LG2010P
> OS Windows XPSP2 Professional
> Norton Systemwork Antivirus 2002
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