- Jun 22, 2004
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I have a Soyo SY-P4I865PE Plus DRAGON 2 V1.0 865PE Chipset motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-139-144&depa=0
I recently did a bios upgrade. Afterwards the motherboard would not recognize any drives. I found that if you cleared the CMOS, it would boot up again. However, if you shut it down and try to restart, it will not recognize the drives again thus necessitating another clearing of the CMOS. I tried replacing the onboard battery with no luck.
I exchanged the board with Soyo, who were pretty nice about it. They gave me a brand new board with the new bios and the tech told me that I should look at my power supply as the voltages may have been slowly killing the board. (I have a Antec Sonata with the 380 watt PS.)
Took the new board home and it started acting exactly as the old board did. I swapped PS to a brand new Antec NeoPower 480 with the same results.
Any idea why this may be happening?
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-139-144&depa=0
I recently did a bios upgrade. Afterwards the motherboard would not recognize any drives. I found that if you cleared the CMOS, it would boot up again. However, if you shut it down and try to restart, it will not recognize the drives again thus necessitating another clearing of the CMOS. I tried replacing the onboard battery with no luck.
I exchanged the board with Soyo, who were pretty nice about it. They gave me a brand new board with the new bios and the tech told me that I should look at my power supply as the voltages may have been slowly killing the board. (I have a Antec Sonata with the 380 watt PS.)
Took the new board home and it started acting exactly as the old board did. I swapped PS to a brand new Antec NeoPower 480 with the same results.
Any idea why this may be happening?