A7N8X Restart Issue.

[ahrenl]

Hoping someone can validate my conclusion here.

Bought a refurb'd A7N8X from newegg and hooked it up to the following system:

1600XP + Palomino
512 MB DDR PC2100 (2 X 256MB Samsung & Kingston )
GF2 64mb MX400 ( I know pathetic, TI4200 is in the mail )
Adaptec Generic SCSI card ( tried removing as well )
ATI TV wonder VE ( tried removing as well )
Matrox 60GB IDE
WD 18GB IDE
Panasonic 12X DVD 40X CD IDE
Panasonic 8X2X2 CDRW SCSI
Generic Floppy

Could get the motherboard to auto sense everything and accept setting it up manually as well. Would boot into the windows XP splash screen ( or in safe mode would load all the drivers up to mup.sys ) and then I would see a .1 sec blue screen flash and it would reset. ( as if the button was pushed ) I also tried booting up with a few different OS boot discs and it would just freeze after it verified the DMI pool. I decided the mobo was toast and RMA'd it. Was there something else I could have tried? I did flash the bios with the newest ver ( 1004 ) and it came with 1003, so it was pretty up-to-date neway. I also tried disconnecting the Reset SW connector on the case from the mobo in case that was sending some weird signal. Thanks!

 

[Lord Evermore]

I would have said try each of the memory modules by themselves.

 

[ahrenl]

Here's the thing though. The motherboard was the only thing I replaced. Even now I have put the old motherboard back in, with all the same hardware, and the system is up and running along fine. I did have some issue's with one of my storage drives when I initally tried to boot up, (with the old mobo) but it would still boot to the "trying to fix your drive" screen. I fixed this by moving the drive to a different bay. Think maybe it was the wacky "screws are too tight" thing that I've seen before. This is where if you screw the holding screws into your hard drive too tight it has serious issues. Although usually it is just shorted, mine was freezing the system everytime it got to checking the 23rd% of the free space.

It's my firm belief that intoxication is necessary when working on computer system ( although I was sober this time, that musta been what went wrong ), that way there's always some semi-logical choice why it doesn't work.

 

[shankster63]

IF you can boot into safemode, go to control panel/system/advanced/startup&recovery(settings) under system
failure, untic automatically restart. maybe this will help.

 

[Kdiver58]

Shanks right on the money by stopping the auto
reboot you will be able to to see what is causing the
reboot.

 

[SuperPickle]

It's my firm belief that intoxication is necessary when working on computer system

Ahahaha...I've done this as well just to see if I could do it. I would heavily suggest not trying this method with expensive parts that you can't afford to replace.

I can say that when I got this same board, things seemed squirley at first too...almost as if it needed to get 'used to being a computer.' After I got over the starting hurdles, everything is peachy.