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Help with Annoying problem

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Ekj530

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My computer will not do a restart. If I try and restart, it will go through the shutdown process, save settings (which it accomplishes) and then I lose video signal and it just sits there, fans running and will never reboot. I have to kill the power to the power supply and then do a cold boot.

It has been this way for a long time and it is really annoying. It is not OS dependent. It does it with Win98, W2K, and XP. I have formatted, zero filled--I do not think it is the HDD. I have updated the BIOS--still it does the same thing every time. I do not believe that it is driver related because it will not reboot if I go into BIOS during boot up and change a setting.

So, does anyone have any idea as to what it might be? This is my system specs:

Enermax 431W EG465P-VE
AMD XP2100/ Zalman CNPS 3100 + HSF
MS 6380 K7T 266 Pro R
764 PC 2100 DDR (1 512 SpecTek + 256 Samsung)
2 Qty. 40GB Maxtor 7200 ATA133 (Onboard Promise Fastrak 100 RAID controller RAID 0 striped)
1.44 Imatation Floppy
nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (MSI StarForce 815)
52x Creative CDROM
52x24x52 Samsung CDRW
Phillips Seismic Edge PS704 Sound
D-Link RTL8139(A/B/C)-based Fast Ethernet Adapter PC

The only thing that has not either been changed or removed at one time or another is the mobo and ethernet adapter. Everything else (including CPU) has been changed or removed and the problem persist. It does this even during OS install so I know it is not software related. Any help or ideas would be appreciated!
 
the only thing I can think of is that your power switch and reset are not pluged in correctly into your mobo's panel, check that out first. other than that it's a real quandry...... sorry
 
reset works fine as well as the power button. I am about to think that it might just be my ethernet card. It is the only thing that has remained the same (apart from the mobo). If not, it has got to be some quirk in the mobo itself. Thanks for the try though. I know, it is a mystrey!
 
Unplug everything except for the hard drives and video card. Remove any other pci devices. Then try restarting. What kind of voltages are being reported?
What's the power management settings?
 
I had this problem 4 years ago....it is your power supply. You bought something new recently and since then you can't restart. Get a new supply. I think you are using a low power supply/low quality.
 
icman... i doubt his power supply is the problem for the reasons you metnioned. It's 431 watts which is more than ample to power his sytem and it's an enermax to boot. However, it could still be the problem. You said everything except the ethernet card has been replaced... does this include the power supply? if you have swapped out the power supply and the problems remains then it's definitely not your psu.
 
Yes, I have swapped out the psu, thinking that it might be it. But, the problem remains. Power management is diabled in BIOS, but, it seems to make no difference. I am going to swap out that Ethernet card tomorrow. I will post the result. I will post voltages. What is a good Windows voltage proggy to use? I don't really care for any of the MSI utilities that came with the board.

Thanks for the help! I really hope I can figure this out because it is annoying for one and cannot be the best for my components. Sometimes I will hard boot ten times a day when loading and unloading allot of software.
 
motherboard monitor 5, aka mbm 5, is a pretty good catch all program. It monitors voltages, system temps, and fan speeds. However, setup can take a while.
 
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