When I turn my computer off and leave it off over a minute or two. I have a hard time getting it to come back on. When I push the power button my power supply comes on in the computer. But my processor wont kick in. Once it turns on it works fine.If I go to shutdown and than restart it also works fine.It seems to go into hibernation when it is shut down for any length of time.

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If I understand what you are saying, you may be running into a problem that a few other people have talked about here. Your hard drive may not be spinning up quickly enough to be recognized by the CPU and this keeps the system from booting. When you reset, the hard drive has already begun to overcome inertia to spin and it is able to start up so that the CPU can recognize it and go ahead with a boot. I believe the solution to his is to adjust the time allowed for the hd to spin up in the BIOS settings.

If this isn't the problem, please provide more detail about what is happening, when you say the power supply works, but not the CPU, how do you know this?? Do you get any beeps? Do you see anything on the screen?

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Try resetting and clearing the CMOS. Also install the latest BIOS update.

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I checked the BIOS and cleared the CMOS it seemed to work as I turned it off 4 or 5 times waited 5 or 10 mins than turned it back on. Than it started the same thing again. Like I stated before once it boots up it works fine.It seems the longer it is shut down the more times I have to push the power button to get the cpu to start with the boot up process. I checked for updates to the BIOS but couldnt find any. I suspect the main hard drive isnt spinning fast enough on start up. I have 2 hard drives the first one is a 10 gig western digital 5200 rpm. The secondary one is a 60 gig maxtor 7200 rpm.

Could be a power supply problem, which usually means swapping out the current one and if that fixes it that is what it was....(not a real hi tech approach, but one that works).