HTC Hero breaks my booting process

Stuck in POST, memory not found

After I got myself a HTC Hero for Christmas, I’ve noticed (the few times) when I’m rebooting my computer it often won’t go past POST. I thought this could be related to my computer’s PSU which got fried some months ago due to a power failure and thought it might have damaged my motherboard or any other  components in my computer.

I’ve tried various things as reset CMOS, letting computer cool off etc (with random results), until I one day just unplugged the USB cable to my HTC Hero as I had to take a call, and tried rebooting it right after I unplugged my phone – to my surprise – it worked. I finally got past POST and BIOS booted up successfully and found both my CPU and my memory. I have no clue why HTC Hero affects my current hardware, so I find it worth to create a tiny blog post about it, if anyone else have experienced the same weird stalling at POST, due to not  finding the processor or memory which might be your HTC Hero’s fault.

My current hardware is a Q6600 processor from Intel on a Gigabyte motherboard model P35C-DS3R and memory from Kingston.

I knew that USB pen drives can cause some motherboards to not get past the POST, but I’ve never had this issue as my USB pen drive is always plugged in.  To my surprise, it seems like HTC Hero actually affects my motherboard somehow.

Definitive learned something new today..

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