Need a bit of help with my Epox 8kta3 cold booting...

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DaddyG

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My guess would be you have a regulator or power supply problem. When the system is completely powered off, with the power strips, all the capacitors begin to discharge, they take a while. After they completely discharge, the initial load on the pwer supply is higher and could cause this problem. ATX systems don't require that you power off at the power strip. Try leaving the power strip on and see what happens.
 

CichliSuite

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Regarding the mail-back from Epox.

Epox has INCREDIBLE customer support. I've read of cases where people were sent new bios chips because their claimed that their chips were bad.

That's f*cking awesome, if you ask me.


I love Epox now, and I LOVE this board.

Stable as a rockity rock.

 

Tummy

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Yes, Epox mailed me back within 2 hours of my note, too. simply amazing...

anyway, I've just got a few things left to try before I attempt to leave the power strip on, that will be the last thing i try (short of rma'ing the board, which i'd prefer not to do unless i have to).

Thanks for the tips, I will let you guys know how it goes.

One thing I did notice was that my chip default voltage had set itself back to 1.75 (in other words my L7 close faded) so i redid that, and perhaps that was a cause of the problem as well. Time will tell... (a scary thing, i might add, is that when i removed the heat sink so many times i actually chipped a little corner of my CPU... I could hear the particles grinding when I reclipped my hsf. The amazing part - it still works! Thank goodness!!!!)
 

sad

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<< my L7 close faded >>



Can I assume you used pencil? I swear you are just asking for more trouble. Get rid of that junk and use either conductive pen or loctite repair kit.
 

Tummy

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Yes, I am using Pencil for now. Once I get everything up and running exactly the way I want it I will switch to something more permananent.

Just an additional update...

Last night i tried plugging my power supply directly into the wall (ie it always had power) and this morning when I powered my machine up, same problem, video card not detected. Shut down, restart right away, no problems. I'm starting to think that maybe I really DO have a bum board. Two last things for me to try; I had my RAM in slots 2 &amp; 3, going to try it in 1 &amp; 2. Also, going to leave it at 100fsb to see if that fixes anything.

Wish me luck guys... I don't want to have to switch to a different mobo!
 

sad

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I don't think a different motherboard will help, since your cpu is already damaged. I accidently chipped a pepper sized chunk off my K6-3+450 and I killed it dead.:( (stupid me, i removed the alum. cap trying to lower heat...that's another story) I'm surprised you are even able to get your computer to post! Good luck regardless.
 

sad

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He chipped a corner off his cpu. Like I said, that was enough to kill mine.
 

Tummy

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Yep, i did, but it still works! phew!! :D

But an additional update to my motherboard problem... so far nothing I've tried works. If it's been off for awhile, the video card initialization fails. So, I am going to RMA the motherboard and see what happens. Thanks all for the help!
 

Uthiroid

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has anybody tried the windows system file changes, though? just wondering if this actually helped..
 

Tummy

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Not me - it wouldn't have any effect on what I'm doing, because I can't see anything before windows even loads.