- Mar 11, 2002
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After powering on, I get the standard beep, fans spin, motherboard lights up, but then I get one long continuous 3 second beep and the system shuts down.
Given that the first beep is normal, the board and cpu seem to be communicating fine. But something is shutting it down afterwards.
From the manual, it's either the FOC auto-shutdown mechanism in the Soyo board, or perhaps the mb is shorted to case.
I thought it might be because the FOC wasn't sensing a strong enough RPM signal, so I held down the insert key to bypass, but that didn't help. Same beeps, same auto-shutdown result.
I've checked the cables, all seems fine. All other peripherals are tested and working (including the CPU).
Could it be that my mb is shorted to the case? What does that mean? I have not been able to use the plastic support spacers that the manual says will prevent shorting the mb to the case(1, don't understand how to use it, and 2, my case has a mounted support spacer already in that area).
So, what should I do? I think the board is working (lights up during initial boot).
I thought it might be because the FOC wasn't sensing a strong enough RPM signal, so I held down the insert key to bypass, but that didn't help.
Any ideas what's causing this?
System specs are as follows (using bare minimum)
Soyo KT333 Ultra Dragon Lite
AMD 1700 XP+ - tested and working
Artic Cooler HS with provided fan (from SVCompucycle). Fan has RPM sensor wire
Artic Silver 3 thermal paste
Elixir 256mb PC 2100 DDR RAM - tested and working
IBM Deskstart 40gb 7200rpm - tested and working
Antec 330 PSU - tested and working
Cendyne 40x CDRW - tested and working
Mitsumi floppy drive - tested and working
Thanks for any help,
Mith
Given that the first beep is normal, the board and cpu seem to be communicating fine. But something is shutting it down afterwards.
From the manual, it's either the FOC auto-shutdown mechanism in the Soyo board, or perhaps the mb is shorted to case.
I thought it might be because the FOC wasn't sensing a strong enough RPM signal, so I held down the insert key to bypass, but that didn't help. Same beeps, same auto-shutdown result.
I've checked the cables, all seems fine. All other peripherals are tested and working (including the CPU).
Could it be that my mb is shorted to the case? What does that mean? I have not been able to use the plastic support spacers that the manual says will prevent shorting the mb to the case(1, don't understand how to use it, and 2, my case has a mounted support spacer already in that area).
So, what should I do? I think the board is working (lights up during initial boot).
I thought it might be because the FOC wasn't sensing a strong enough RPM signal, so I held down the insert key to bypass, but that didn't help.
Any ideas what's causing this?
System specs are as follows (using bare minimum)
Soyo KT333 Ultra Dragon Lite
AMD 1700 XP+ - tested and working
Artic Cooler HS with provided fan (from SVCompucycle). Fan has RPM sensor wire
Artic Silver 3 thermal paste
Elixir 256mb PC 2100 DDR RAM - tested and working
IBM Deskstart 40gb 7200rpm - tested and working
Antec 330 PSU - tested and working
Cendyne 40x CDRW - tested and working
Mitsumi floppy drive - tested and working
Thanks for any help,
Mith