I'm building a new HTPC. After installing MOBO drivers, the PC will not boot.
I installed everything, entered BIOS and selected 'Load Optimum Defaults', did a full reformat on the hard drive (which was painfully slow), loaded Windows MCE 2005, then loaded the motherboard drivers on the CD that came with the MOBO - then the trouble began. The MOBO manual says that device drivers will restart the computer automatically and Xpress Install will continue to install other drivers. Well, it restarted once but during POST, the system just shutdown. I tried to manually restart it and everything would come on for a millisecond then shut down - it doesn't even make it to post. The only issue I had during the build was the fact that my power supply is not set up for the 6 pin power to the video card. I went to Directron and picked up a 6 pin adapter that connects to two 4 pin plugs and all seemed to be good (I also picked up a couple of rounded IDE cables and a sound cable splitter so I get sound from both optical drives). Any ideas what is going on?
Here are my specs:
Model Name : GA-M55SLI-S4
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M/B Rev : 1.0
BIOS Ver : ?
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VGA Brand : ATi Model : All-in-Wonder X1900 PCI-E
CPU Brand : AMD Model : ATHLON Speed : X2 4200+
Operation System : Windows Media Center 2005
Memory Brand : Wintec Type : DDRII
Memory Size : PC2-4200 Speed : 1GB
Power Supply : ULTRA X-CONNECT 500 W
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar 250GB
Optical Drives: (2) Samsung DVD-RW drives
I installed everything, entered BIOS and selected 'Load Optimum Defaults', did a full reformat on the hard drive (which was painfully slow), loaded Windows MCE 2005, then loaded the motherboard drivers on the CD that came with the MOBO - then the trouble began. The MOBO manual says that device drivers will restart the computer automatically and Xpress Install will continue to install other drivers. Well, it restarted once but during POST, the system just shutdown. I tried to manually restart it and everything would come on for a millisecond then shut down - it doesn't even make it to post. The only issue I had during the build was the fact that my power supply is not set up for the 6 pin power to the video card. I went to Directron and picked up a 6 pin adapter that connects to two 4 pin plugs and all seemed to be good (I also picked up a couple of rounded IDE cables and a sound cable splitter so I get sound from both optical drives). Any ideas what is going on?
Here are my specs:
Model Name : GA-M55SLI-S4
--------------------------
M/B Rev : 1.0
BIOS Ver : ?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VGA Brand : ATi Model : All-in-Wonder X1900 PCI-E
CPU Brand : AMD Model : ATHLON Speed : X2 4200+
Operation System : Windows Media Center 2005
Memory Brand : Wintec Type : DDRII
Memory Size : PC2-4200 Speed : 1GB
Power Supply : ULTRA X-CONNECT 500 W
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar 250GB
Optical Drives: (2) Samsung DVD-RW drives
