Thread: Frustrating Booting problem

A few weeks back, my machine started having booting problems. The power LED (blue) stayed on, but the hard disk LED remained off. My monitor says that it's turning off to save power every time. A hardware engineer said that my SMPS had gone kaput and I had it replaced immediately. Even after that, the . machine booted fine sometimes, but just got stuck again. After that, I did a fresh BIOS update, after which for several days I did not face any problems. Now again, I am facing the same booting problems as before. Nine out of ten times, the machine hangs during boot. The power LED stays on and the hard drive LED stays off. Pressing and holding the power button for 5-6 seconds used to correct it, till now.

If you have a UPS set up for the computer, try disconnecting it. There's no single clear way to know what the problem may be. Start by disconnecting the drives and see if it starts up without any problems. The next thing to check is the motherboard. Try using it with a different processor to see if it works. If the motherboard is new, it might be worth sending it back to get checked by the service center.