[Fishpan]

Hi,

Whenever I start my new (upgraded) PC or restart it, the BIOS hiccups (shuts down). 5 secs later, the board comes back to life automatically and goes into Windows as normal. There are no other problems. I would be grateful if I could address this issue.

My specs:

NorthQ Basic Power 400W
MSI G33M-FI mATX motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (not overclocked)
Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400 RAM (4-4-4-12)
NVidia GeForce 8600GTS
Creative X-Fi Xtreme-Audio
WD Caviar SE 250GB SATA HDD (relatively new and worked before)

Thank you for your time.

Fishpan.

[jamesx121]

the screen doesnt say anything after hiccups?????

when motherboard ID screen comes up a line at bottom will say something like
""press DEL to enter set-up"""
and ""press ""?"" to display POST ""

press what ever letter it says to press to view your post screen
and see if any error messages or warning codes are listed.

did you hook up the motherboard speaker???
how many beeps if any is it sounding at start up???

this will give us somewhere to start.

[jamesx121]

and I'M probably way off base --
but I wonder about the motherboard cmos battery.
this is supposed to maintain enough power to save your bios file settings.
if the first time the bios file settings try to load maybe the battery is hiccuping
and this is causing the bios file to reload a second time--which works

bad battery or a corrupted bios settings file saved to cmos??

if its a bad bios settings corrupted saved file. read your motherboard manual and it will
have instructions on how to remove the battery to reset the bios back to default

and then you reload your bios settings again.
just read the manual

[Fishpan]

i'll try this now - thanks for the help.