Well, the weird thing is that it needs "warming up" before the system starts up properly. It used to be just a small annoyance but is going in the direction that it needs several minutes of power on before it can do a successful system startup.
Symptoms are freezings at hardware self- test, or shortly after. When the "warming up" is done, the system runs flawless.
I vaguely remember this topic has been discussed here before. Not sure if the conclusion then was oxidation on cpu port connector metal or some worn out capacitor.
Or maybe its running Java and need to optimize machine- code before starting workbench? :-P
Anyway, has anyone experienced this, and maybe know how to fix it?
Check the A/V module card as well as the disk module for leaky caps. My tower had the same issues long time ago. Upon further inspection I noticed leaky caps as well as a few suspect ones near the Zorro slots. I posted pictures here a while ago. Check them out..
I ended up getting new boards from Softhut..
Rich
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