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K7T Pro2-A Power-Up Issue

G

Geek

Senior member
I have a K7T Pro2-A with a quirky power-up problem. When I apply power to the case, the system turns on momentarily and then shuts off. It starts up and runs fine after pressing the power button on the case itself, but I don't think that momentary power on/off cycle is doing anything good to the system. Any thoughts on what is happening?

BIOS: looks like 2.0
p/s: PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 300
 
go into bios under powermanagment and look for the key power state after failure or turnoff.

something like that. it will be set to auto. disable it and see if that works

dave
 
New bios won't help but you can try also disabling APCI in bios + setting power after failure to "off". That might help, unless you're using Win2K. Beware you might have to reinstall Windows though.
 
How to Uninstall ACPI in Windows 2000
1. Open Device Manager from Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device
Manager
2. Go to Computer tab and select the "ACPI enabled" option that you
have there
1. Select Properties
2. Go to Driver tab
3. Press Update Driver...
3. "Welcome to Upgrade Device Driver" wizard opens up, press next to the
first question. From the next page select "Display a list of the known
drivers for this device so that I can choose a specific driver"
4. Select "Show all hardware of this device class"
5. From "(Standard computers)" select "Standard PC"
6. After the new driver has been installed press reboot
7. After reboot Windows 2000 redetects all of your hardware and installs
device drivers again for them.
8. After reinstalling device drivers open Device Manager once again and
open Computer tab and look if you have two "Standard PC" devices there. If
you do have a look at the properties of both "Standard PC" devices and
remove the one which has "driver not installed" in the Device Status screen
9. You are done and ACPI is no longer in use with Windows 2000
 
Thanks for the ideas. I forgot to mention that the O/S is Win98SE. I didn't see anything in the new BIOS release notes that addresses this issue, so I won't be going down that road. Haven't checked the BIOS power management settings but will give that a look. What I did decide to do was move the case power cord to an unswitched socket on my power strip. Holy low tech solution, Batman!
 
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