ECS K7S5A power button wierdness

[Cerb]

OK, upgraded a friend's comp to an ECS K7S5A w/ Duron 800. After the power is turned on, the power button, when depressed, or if you choose to shut down in the OS (WinXP, to be more specific), it restarts the computer instead of shutting it off. Is it just me or is that REALLY wierd? And yes, given the mediocre manual and such, I did try making sure it wasn't switched around with the reset button.

I have never seen this happen before. Any clues? I have not been able to try flashing the BIOS, and given that ECS hasn't done anything outside the archaic mile-long command line method, I'll wait on doing that until I'm feeling quite lucky

 

[Crassus]

I had this on a couple of occasions on different boards using W2K. Activating APM Support under W2K solved the problem, sometimes together with playing around in the BIOS. I can't give you more details as I have no direct knowledge of XP and I can't tell you the way to change things as I don't have an English version of W2K.

 

[bowie71]

Crassus is right,... I had it happened in my K7S5A with Win ME too... it's just a problem of Power managament,.. I disabled the ACPI in BIOS and voilla, the problem is solved....

 

[Olias]

Seen this recently where Roxio's S/W was causing it but you couldn't tell due to the guy had set "System Startup and Recovery" to automatically restart when a system failure occurred. Once he restored this setting, he could see a BSOD which showed Roxio as the culprit. Then he was able to get an update from them and fix it.

 

[Rottie]

I don't understand..I have no problem with APCI enabled on BIO....I am using W2k.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Also check the jumper and cable settings on your IDE devices. My system (K7S5A) would constantly restart rather than shut down. I discovered that by placing the master drive at the end of the cable, where it's supposed to be, corrected the problem. Using cable select instead of slave/master may also introduce enough variables to cause reboot rather than normal shutdown. Try it out.