Hello Firstly my PC is as follows Gigabyte motherboard AMD 2800 processor 2500 mb RAM Sony 19" LCD monitor 120 gb sata harddrive - Maxtor DiamondMax windows xp home sp2 Ge Force 5200fx 128mb with DVI output Whenever I start or restart my PC it gets to the memory count or sometimes does'nt even get to that or the single beep. The screen then goes black and the it starts again with no problems. When it does start up the second time there is never any problems, it just has this little niggle at start up. It used to only do this when I restarted it and not when I started it after total shutdown, now it does it all the time. Any ideas please dlh