k7s5a pro - motherboard doesnt always boot w/ battery

[TheMouse]

This is an odd issue...

When I shut down, and power back on... it wont power up most the time until you disconnect the power from the power supply, and reconnect it. But then I took out the battery, and it starts every time.

Anyone experience this? And have a better solution other than running it without a battery?

 

[Boonesmi]

kinda odd

but most likely its a powersupply issue (strange/sporatic boot problems are often times due to low quality or under powered powersupply)

if you have another powersupply (something pretty decent) try it... it will probably fix your problem

 

[TheMouse]

Originally posted by: Boonesmi
kinda odd

but most likely its a powersupply issue (strange/sporatic boot problems are often times due to low quality or under powered powersupply)

if you have another powersupply (something pretty decent) try it... it will probably fix your problem

Hmm, true, it might be a power supply issue. Its an Antec 350. I can switch it out for a generic 400 watt that I have. Will update when I do so.

 

[Boonesmi]

hehe if i had known you were using an antec 350w i probably wouldnt have added the last statement in my earlier post "it will probably fix your problem"

 

[TheMouse]

Originally posted by: Boonesmi
hehe if i had known you were using an antec 350w i probably wouldnt have added the last statement in my earlier post "it will probably fix your problem"

yea, I'm kinda stumped. The board is new from newegg... and I have 2 others that I had been using for some time now without any problems.

 

[serialb]

I had the very same problem with the one i got from Fry's. I have spent dozens of hours trying to figure out what could lead to this problem. Changing CMOS battery, PSU, RAM banks... none works better than returning it back for another one

If you can't return it, I'd suggest RMA'ing it back to ECS.

 

[JimRaynor]

Sounds like infamous cold boot syndrome. I once read somewhere that a bios flash to the cheepoman bios fixes this. I have not been able to confirm this. I have a k7s5a that does the same thing but I haven't gotten around to flashing the bios on it yet to see if it solves the problem.