freezing on boot up
Hi
My computer suffers from freezing on boot up. it gets stuck on the bios screen. So i hold down the power button to power it down and then re-power it back up. on the 2nd try, it doesn't freeze and windows loads up. Happens 6 out of 7 times.
i did some googling, some say it's hard drive, some say i have to dismantle some parts and re-assemble. I've asked some people and they also said it could be the PSU (i put in a video card about 4 months ago and it's a stock PSU). Any ideas?
Specs are:
Dell Desktop
Athlon x2 4200 (Stock)
3GB RAM (upgraded from 1GB to 3GB)
150GB HDD (stock)
Radeon 4350 (upgraded from onboard)
stock PSU is rated about 300W
And it's running win 7. I'm currently just leaving my computer on sleep mode when i'm away instead of turning it off.
Thanks!
My computer suffers from freezing on boot up. it gets stuck on the bios screen. So i hold down the power button to power it down and then re-power it back up. on the 2nd try, it doesn't freeze and windows loads up. Happens 6 out of 7 times.
i did some googling, some say it's hard drive, some say i have to dismantle some parts and re-assemble. I've asked some people and they also said it could be the PSU (i put in a video card about 4 months ago and it's a stock PSU). Any ideas?
Specs are:
Dell Desktop
Athlon x2 4200 (Stock)
3GB RAM (upgraded from 1GB to 3GB)
150GB HDD (stock)
Radeon 4350 (upgraded from onboard)
stock PSU is rated about 300W
And it's running win 7. I'm currently just leaving my computer on sleep mode when i'm away instead of turning it off.
Thanks!