Specs:
Antec Sonata "silent" mid-tower case
Abit KR7A-RAID mobo
Athlon 1900 processor
mirrored (RAID 0) IBM 45GB drives
Antec 380w power supply
512MB memory
Danger Den water cooling kit
PCI pump relay card
Creative Live 5.1 sound
MSI G3 Ti4200 graphics
generic Ethernet card
USR gaming modem
Firewire card
Windows XP , latest patches
two CD-RW drives
So this system was working fine until I installed the water cooling kit. I have installed water cooling kits before but this one was a pain because the case is pretty tight. Installing the kit entailed removing all components and the mobo, etc.
Anyway I get the system back together and power up. It immediately goes into an infinite reset loop. Starts to power up (water cooling pump starts, fans start, disks start to spin up) and then it resets and starts again. I say it resets because the red reset light on the mobo comes on each time. No output appears on the screen. There is no POST beep.
I have got it to come up twice. Both times by hitting the reset button myself as it was trying to come up. Once into the BIOS (every thing was fine). And once into the OS. It took forever to come up but it did come up and everything was fine. All devices were recognized and seemed to work fine. When I requested a restart though it shut down instead of restarting and won't come up again.
I tried disconnecting the new PCI pump switch relay card. Made no difference. I tried disconnecting the radiator fan. No difference. I disconnected the reset switch (maybe a bad switch?). No difference. I have checked all connections, checked PCI and AGP card setting, reseated memory, etc.
Since it came up once there must not be any real problem with the components. I suspect a power supply problem but but I don't know why when it worked fine before and I am not putting any more load on the power. In fact I removed a DVD drive I had in it. The water cooling pump has its own power supply. It s possible something is shorting out but I am at a loss as to what.
My next step is to start with a bare system (no CDs or PCI cards) and see if that will boot and work forward from there.
Antec Sonata "silent" mid-tower case
Abit KR7A-RAID mobo
Athlon 1900 processor
mirrored (RAID 0) IBM 45GB drives
Antec 380w power supply
512MB memory
Danger Den water cooling kit
PCI pump relay card
Creative Live 5.1 sound
MSI G3 Ti4200 graphics
generic Ethernet card
USR gaming modem
Firewire card
Windows XP , latest patches
two CD-RW drives
So this system was working fine until I installed the water cooling kit. I have installed water cooling kits before but this one was a pain because the case is pretty tight. Installing the kit entailed removing all components and the mobo, etc.
Anyway I get the system back together and power up. It immediately goes into an infinite reset loop. Starts to power up (water cooling pump starts, fans start, disks start to spin up) and then it resets and starts again. I say it resets because the red reset light on the mobo comes on each time. No output appears on the screen. There is no POST beep.
I have got it to come up twice. Both times by hitting the reset button myself as it was trying to come up. Once into the BIOS (every thing was fine). And once into the OS. It took forever to come up but it did come up and everything was fine. All devices were recognized and seemed to work fine. When I requested a restart though it shut down instead of restarting and won't come up again.
I tried disconnecting the new PCI pump switch relay card. Made no difference. I tried disconnecting the radiator fan. No difference. I disconnected the reset switch (maybe a bad switch?). No difference. I have checked all connections, checked PCI and AGP card setting, reseated memory, etc.
Since it came up once there must not be any real problem with the components. I suspect a power supply problem but but I don't know why when it worked fine before and I am not putting any more load on the power. In fact I removed a DVD drive I had in it. The water cooling pump has its own power supply. It s possible something is shorting out but I am at a loss as to what.
My next step is to start with a bare system (no CDs or PCI cards) and see if that will boot and work forward from there.
