Motherboard or PSU problem for this issue?

[Rivendell]

From a cold boot (turned off for few hours), I have to warm up the machine (either F8 before windows or go into BIOS and idle) for a few minutes before booting into Windows.
Otherwise it'll black screen right before the windows login screen appears.

The machine is 4years plus old, everything is fine for my current usage so if the chance is very high that it's just the PSU conking out, I'll just grab a PSU replacement.

So the question, which possibility is high?

MB: Gigabyte EP35-DS3L
PSU: Andyson 500W (from when it first appeared in the market IIRC)

 

[poor_poor]

From a cold boot (turned off for few hours), I have to warm up the machine (either F8 before windows or go into BIOS and idle) for a few minutes before booting into Windows.
Otherwise it'll black screen right before the windows login screen appears.

The machine is 4years plus old, everything is fine for my current usage so if the chance is very high that it's just the PSU conking out, I'll just grab a PSU replacement.

So the question, which possibility is high?

MB: Gigabyte EP35-DS3L
PSU: Andyson 500W (from when it first appeared in the market IIRC)

can you show full spec of your pc?

and which version of bios are you using?

 

[Rivendell]

I don't think the BIOS version is of any use.
This machine has been working fine for the past 4 years..

I'd like to gather some data points from people who have experience dealing with more machines (than me) and poll their experience on it.

 

[poor_poor]

I don't think the BIOS version is of any use.
This machine has been working fine for the past 4 years..

I'd like to gather some data points from people who have experience dealing with more machines (than me) and poll their experience on it.

Okie than i will leave it to other expert user here

 

[Maeda_Toshiie]

Check for bloated caps on the mobo?

Best is still to get another PSU to test.

 

[peterchan75]

This motherboard has metal capacitor. So, unlikely to be bloated cap. Why not just take out the RAM modules and put back again. If it still doesn't work, boot with 1 RAM module.

 

[TheTechRevolutionist]

I think it's a RAM issue. I have similar previous situations. A change of the RAM solved the problem. If not, I will have to boot twice before the windows logo comes.

if not, try looking at your boot priority and see if the BIOS is trying to load from another device.

imo, rarely a psu problem