WtF is going on with my POST process?

[Merlin]

Last week I booted up my PC and it got stuck at the POST stage, where it checks the drives installed.

Thinking the worst, damaged motherboard, I left it for a few hours and then tried it again, out of desperation. Same thing.

I disconnected the HDD and tried again. No luck.

Then I thought to remove the motherboard battery for a few seconds, and it booted up! I reconfigured the BIOS and carried on.

The other day it did the same thing, but this time I simply reset it a few times. Eventually it booted up.

When it hung for the second time, I took a photo...

Do any of you have any clue wtF is going on with this machine, please?

Thanks.

 

[PsyWulf]

What board is it? What drives are connected using what interface?

I've had similar with a bad SATA cable

 

[Merlin]

G965-DS3.

That's interesting! I'll change out the cable. Thank you.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

You got some serious screen burn there I see

 

[thisgeek]

Also try unplugging all USB devices... but most likely a bad data cable on one of your drives.

 

[ponder]

Reset the bios as well.

 

[Merlin]

Yeah, I left webcam flash on, cbrunsdonza...

Thanks. I'll swap out the data cable asap.

BIOS has been reset.