weird boot problem

[seanandnik]

my computer has never had any stability issues until lately, usually I just put my comp to sleep instead of shutting down, i have gone for weeks this way. recently though if i shut down when i reboot the mb will beep like normal, everything lights up and hdd's spin, then nothing, the hdds just keep spinning with a blank black screen, with no pointer or anything , this will go on forever unless i press and hold the power button or press the soft power a few times and then finally after a few presses or so the boot begins for real, i built this computer and can trouble shoot it pretty well , but this is baffling me. i am hoping this will be solved when i install a SSD drive and windows 7 next week. Any other ideas?

 

[seanandnik]

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any ideas? I took out and then reseated all 4 sticks of RAM, then the video card as well. cleaned all dust out, removed some extra unused cards, like my firewire card, anything i dont use I removed, still have this boot problem, the mobo won't beep and then boot, if i randomly press the power button and get it to beep then it loads fine, maybe the power buttons on my case are wonky?

 

[CardboardSword]

Could be a motherboard issue, possibly a GPU problem if everything boots but the sreen remains black. Do you have any other components you can use to narrow down what we're looking at here? Spare PSU? GPU?