I,ve plugged out my PC when I went on holiday for 3 weeks, and when I came back, plugged it in, and started it up, it gave me a message that the bios clock needs to be reset. anyway, I went into the BIOS setup, reset the bios to fail safe defaults, and boot the PC up (XP Professional) It starts normal, but restart itself, after a minute or so, and sometimes it wont boot up, just giving 3 long beeps, pause and 3 long beeps, pause and so it carries on. When I turn it off for a while (hour or so), it starts again. I checked, the CPU temp is not above average I think 45 deg C.  I dunno what to do, so if someone could help, It is a Gigbyte GA-M61PME motherboard with 3 Gig dual core CPU

Thanks,

Jakes

Mazza wrote on Jan 5^th, 2010 at 3:20am:



New PSU. I tried to find the boot error message, but Gigabyte dont give that specific error. Guess maybe it just needs a good cleaning!?

Fozzer wrote on Jan 5^th, 2010 at 7:23am:



Ahh Paul, perhaps you are hiding my BIOS as well? 

Hi Jakes f14,

With you having not run the PC for a few weeks, the bios backup battery may be low, it could be a rechargable one but could be one you can replace.

Have a look at you mem sim slots, reseat the dimms.

Before removing anyboards where you haven't cleaned the pc out for a while could cause you problems, any dust buildup around the slots will fall in at the exact moment you take the cards out

Your fans are running arn't they?
Monitor the temp you mentioned upto the point it reboots.

Steve