Can't cold boot without hitting reset button

[Cheetahsloth]

I just put together a machine for my parents and ran into one of the weirder things I've ever seen on a box. Everything looks to be running fine but I have 2 problems. First, when you hit the power button the machine starts up (drives spin up, fans start, etc), but I have no video. As soon as I hit the reset button though, WHAM! I get video and the machine boots normally. This seems to be an issue when the machine has been off for awhile. The second problem seems to be intermittent and has only occured since I have returned home (of course). It seems that twice yesterday the machine went into suspend mode and when Pops hit the space bar to reactivate the machine it rebooted! I didn't see this behavior while I was there and he says it hasn't happened since, but I'm still a little worried. The machine is :

Enlight Mid-tower case w/300 watt PS
MSI K7T266 Pro2 (KT266A chipset)
1.2 Ghz Athlon Thunderbird
256 MB PC2100 Crucial memory
20 GB ATA100 Western Digital HDD
Leadtek GF2 MX200 video card (using latest Detonator drivers)
Soundblaster Live! Value 5.1
Linksys PCI Ethernet card (not sure on model)
Windows 98SE

I've seen similar problems on several forums and this doesn't appear to be limited to any particular brand of motherboard, but none of these forums had any suggestions as to a fix. Thanks in advance.

--Kenny

 

[azncoffeeboi]

Bump for a needed answer.... =)

EDIT: I just talked with my friend and he says maybe its the connectors to the mobo, try pushing them in harder..... Does anybody here know if switching the direction the power/reset button connecters on the mobo will do anything?

 

[xWeston]

Check to see if there is a jumpe ron your motherboard for Athlon XP and normal ones. Some of the kt266a's have that i know, and the timings are different for the boot process on both of these so if it is set to XP and you do not have an XP athlon in there it may not boot until you press reset.

As far as the other problem goes, just disable power management, i dont like suspsend anyway!

 

[GregMal]

I agree. I don't think it matters with the ATX switch connector on the MB.
Either way will work. I also agree in disabling power mgmt both in the BIOS
and the device manager.......Greg

 

[azncoffeeboi]

I have the exact problem (not suspend mode tho). I am running the Soyo Dragon with a 300 Watt Power supply, and i get the same problem (50% of the time)

This Mobo doesnt have a jumpfor for XP, so what else can it be, help would be apreciated

 

[RattleR77]

Reset your Bios using the MB jumper then restart, be it works. Then slowly re tweak the Bios to your taste, if it happens again after tweaking it is something you are tweaking.

learned this from MSI and Epox. I was very consistent on my set up, just one thing wrong.

Good Luck )

 

[azncoffeeboi]

Thanks, I think I will try this =)