Help: Reboot Problems!!! =(

[mztykal]

Help, I just got my new system up and running and I can't seem to restart without it losing my video signal. When I restart it'll boot fine but I get no video, it takes a few tries to restart it and to get video. 🙁

Here's the specs:

- MSI K7T Turbo KT133A
- AMD T-Bird 1200MHz (non-overclocked)
- 5132MB PC133 Kingston ram
- Matrox G200 8MB video card
- on-board sound
- Linksys NIC
- Maxtor ultra133 40GB
- Quantum ultra66 8GB Bigfoot
- Hitachi GD2000 DVD-Rom
- 300-watt Enhance psu
- Antec SX1030 case

That's about it. 🙁

Someone please help me!!! 🙂

 

[Bovinicus]

Always make sure that all drivers and BIOS' are fully updated. Check your video drivers, chipset drivers, BIOS, and video BIOS.

 

[mztykal]

Gonna upgrade my video drivers. But what would that have to do with a reboot problem? 🙁

 

[Jiggz]

Old dll files and some files in the drivers being incompatible causing a fatal error thus a reboot! It could also be a hardware problem. But before you go that route you want to try to make sure all the software in the system including the bios is in good working order. When you know you have the latest and the greastest of the software you can then try the hardware approach. The process is the same for everybody. There's no such one instant fix for any problem unless it's already discussed and fixed before. For hardware approach you can try baring the system except for the minimum and then add it's component one at a time wile testing along the way. Then you can isolate what's causing the reboot. If you can't find it in this manner then try increasing the vcore of the cpu by closing all the L7 bridges. If it is still the same then you will have to do a clean install of the OS with minimum peripherals. After the OS check for stability then install drivers from the video, disk controllers and etc while testing along the way. If it's still the same, switch the PSU or RMA the mobo.