Delay in Start when Pushing Power Button

I have this issue where, when I push the power button on my computer,
the fans spin up and I hear this clicking noise. The computer does
not boot, there is no display, no beeping, nothing. Then, about 30
seconds later, the hard drive spins-up and the computer boots.

At first, I tried swapping power supplies and then swapping hard
drives, both to no avail. I next thought that maybe it's the
motherboard. The capacitors are slightly bulging and have a hint of
brown discoloring on top, so they might be bad. So I bought a new
motherboard and swapped out the CPU, memory, hard drive, CPU cooler,
and used a new power supply -- nothing. Then I bought a used 1.2
Athlon T-Bird and that does the same things with the new motherbord
(and after going back to the old motherboard, too) - nothing!

Here's a rundown of the Hardware.
-----------------------------------------------------
Biostar M7VKD (bad caps, replaced with MSI K7T Pro 2)
Athlon T-Bird 1.4, and Athlon T-Bird 1.2
3 PCI 133 Dimms (2 Dell brand @ 256 MB, 1 Generic at 128 MB)
Nvidia Geforce TI-4200 (this works in my other machine)
2 PSU's (400 and 300 Watts)
Various IDE Hard Drives


I am at a lost, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

"fish123456" <no.DeleteThis@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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>I have this issue where, when I push the power button on my computer,
> the fans spin up and I hear this clicking noise. The computer does
> not boot, there is no display, no beeping, nothing. Then, about 30
> seconds later, the hard drive spins-up and the computer boots.
>
> At first, I tried swapping power supplies and then swapping hard
> drives, both to no avail. I next thought that maybe it's the
> motherboard. The capacitors are slightly bulging and have a hint of
> brown discoloring on top, so they might be bad. So I bought a new
> motherboard and swapped out the CPU, memory, hard drive, CPU cooler,
> and used a new power supply -- nothing. Then I bought a used 1.2
> Athlon T-Bird and that does the same things with the new motherbord
> (and after going back to the old motherboard, too) - nothing!
>
> Here's a rundown of the Hardware.
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Biostar M7VKD (bad caps, replaced with MSI K7T Pro 2)
> Athlon T-Bird 1.4, and Athlon T-Bird 1.2
> 3 PCI 133 Dimms (2 Dell brand @ 256 MB, 1 Generic at 128 MB)
> Nvidia Geforce TI-4200 (this works in my other machine)
> 2 PSU's (400 and 300 Watts)
> Various IDE Hard Drives
>
>
> I am at a lost, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

Well my first thought was CMOS settings improperly configured, or a bad
power supply. But then you mentioned changing the mainboard and the power
supply. My next suspect would have been the CPU, but you changed that,
also. This could be caused by a short circuit, under the mainboard. But
again, you changed the mainboard. If there was a problem down there, I
would hope you would have noticed.

There's an outside chance it could be caused by bad RAM. I would try
booting with just ONE stick of RAM. If that doesn't work, or if the symptom
doesn't change,
Leave your ONE stick of RAM in the NEW mainboard. But clear CMOS by
removing battery and moving jumper to clear for about 15 minutes. Then
enter BIOS setup screen and load default settings. -Dave