8K7A+ Power down or crash on soft reset

[Ashkash]

I dont quite understand it, when i turned it on the first time it played up, the screen went into standby mode, and the POST LED said FF although there was no other activity so i do not believe it entered the boot sequance, when i pressed the cold reset but it booted properly so i went into the bios had a play about set the Cas latency to 2.5 instead of 2 which it was set at even tho i have pc2100.

Now when i turned it off with the power and on again it boots fine every time, or when i press the reset switch. BUT when i soft reset, either using windows or control+alt+del or whatever it does that same thing, moniter goes into standy and POST sais FF.

Im completely vexed by this can anyone help me out?

I have Epox 8K7A set at 133FSB
Athlon 1.33ghz *266*
256 crucial pc2100
300watt enlight PSU
GF2 GTS 32mb
Baynetgear lan card in there to +hard disk, CD Rom and 2 80 mm fans.

 

[NelsonMuntz]

You said Baynetgear lan card. Is that a Netgear FA311? If so, that's your problem. There are known issues between that card and the AMD 761 northbridge.

 

[Ashkash]

Thats right its FA311, Are you saying thats the cause?

 

[oobuk]

Yes. He is saying that that board will not work right with the Netgear fa310 or 311 board. I had it, pulled it, and it worked fine.

I put in a 3com NIC afterwards and that did not cause any problems.

 

[klpickrell]

Same here. I pulled mine out and it worked fine.

 

[Ashkash]

Gah going to a big LAN next week :], bloody typical :]
Thanks guys

 

[Daxman]

Well, what about an older FA-310? That's what I have, and i'm looking to get an AMD 761 chipset board soon. Shall I throw in a 3Com?


Dax

 

[rickn]

The FA310TX works just fine with the 761 chipset. I have tested this NIC (with Lite-On chipset) and it works fine