Hey guys,
Just got my computer set up from shipping it quite far, and of course thar'
be problems!
(Abit IC7-MAX II, ATI 9800 AIW PRO, P4c 3GHZ, 2GB ram (good crucial and
kingston ram, pc3200 i believe).
Essentially, when I power on my PSU, after four seconds of the green power
LED on my mobo being lit, the motherboard boots on its own...
I've since unplugged almost everything to the motherboard, all except the
power supply, the mobo>cpu heatsink fan power, and sometimes the front-panel
power-on switch (I've tried with it off). It's also not the PSU...the PSU in
there is an Antec True Power 430, and I booted the mobo up with a TruePower
480 -- same response. Green power-on LED for four seconds, then the mobo
booted spontaneously. I've also powered the PSU on with no front-panel
switches/jumpers connected (power-on switch, reset, hdd led, etc), and it
still boots!
Next, I booted with the clear-cmos jumper on 2-3 to clear the cmos. Back to
jumpers 1-2, it still boots spontaneously after four seconds. I messed
around more for a few minutes, and now it APPEARS that it's just powering on
to a green power-on LED, and only booting when I press the Power switch.
One of my main questions: why is the motherboard powering on by itself?
Unfortunately, even if that problem is solved..that's not the end of my
worries...there are still no beeps from the motherboard, and no video output
onscreen.
Aside: I HAVE had a problem in the past with the video card...the
motherboard would boot with the "no-video-found" speaker beep sequence. This
was always solved after some fiddling and reseating of the video card
(ok...and a little swearing, crying, etc...). To my knowledge it has NEVER
crashed because of this video card thing -- this only happened when
restarted or after a cold boot.
I'm also not 100% sure the internal speaker is audible...during some of my
testing I heard a very faint speaker-like sound coming from inside the case.
I didn't check enough to determine exactly where, but I'm sure it wasn't the
faint buzz from my UPS next to my box.
Also, I'm sure my LCD is working fine, and my video card is at least powered
(fan working).
Quick questions I'd appreciate an answer for:
Do motherboards require any RAM to POST? CPU? (I'm pretty sure they don't
require a CPU because I've seen the "Bad or Unknown CPU detected" screen
before)
Is the speaker on the motherboard or case--connected via a jumper with the
front-panel connectors? (sad question, I know...I forgot)
thanks for your time and I appreciate any comments and help!
lb
Just got my computer set up from shipping it quite far, and of course thar'
be problems!
(Abit IC7-MAX II, ATI 9800 AIW PRO, P4c 3GHZ, 2GB ram (good crucial and
kingston ram, pc3200 i believe).
Essentially, when I power on my PSU, after four seconds of the green power
LED on my mobo being lit, the motherboard boots on its own...
I've since unplugged almost everything to the motherboard, all except the
power supply, the mobo>cpu heatsink fan power, and sometimes the front-panel
power-on switch (I've tried with it off). It's also not the PSU...the PSU in
there is an Antec True Power 430, and I booted the mobo up with a TruePower
480 -- same response. Green power-on LED for four seconds, then the mobo
booted spontaneously. I've also powered the PSU on with no front-panel
switches/jumpers connected (power-on switch, reset, hdd led, etc), and it
still boots!
Next, I booted with the clear-cmos jumper on 2-3 to clear the cmos. Back to
jumpers 1-2, it still boots spontaneously after four seconds. I messed
around more for a few minutes, and now it APPEARS that it's just powering on
to a green power-on LED, and only booting when I press the Power switch.
One of my main questions: why is the motherboard powering on by itself?
Unfortunately, even if that problem is solved..that's not the end of my
worries...there are still no beeps from the motherboard, and no video output
onscreen.
Aside: I HAVE had a problem in the past with the video card...the
motherboard would boot with the "no-video-found" speaker beep sequence. This
was always solved after some fiddling and reseating of the video card
(ok...and a little swearing, crying, etc...). To my knowledge it has NEVER
crashed because of this video card thing -- this only happened when
restarted or after a cold boot.
I'm also not 100% sure the internal speaker is audible...during some of my
testing I heard a very faint speaker-like sound coming from inside the case.
I didn't check enough to determine exactly where, but I'm sure it wasn't the
faint buzz from my UPS next to my box.
Also, I'm sure my LCD is working fine, and my video card is at least powered
(fan working).
Quick questions I'd appreciate an answer for:
Do motherboards require any RAM to POST? CPU? (I'm pretty sure they don't
require a CPU because I've seen the "Bad or Unknown CPU detected" screen
before)
Is the speaker on the motherboard or case--connected via a jumper with the
front-panel connectors? (sad question, I know...I forgot)
thanks for your time and I appreciate any comments and help!
lb
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