PC goes into standby(?) after restoring power

[suszterpatt]

Whenever I turn off my PC and cut the power by turning off the PSU or the power strip it's connected to and the restore power, my PC goes into some sort of standby mode. The LED on the front keeps glowing (otherwise it only flashes when there's HD activity), and all the fans are running (case fans, PSU, CPU, even the vid card). However, no signal is sent to the monitor, and I have to push the power button to make the comp boot.


Strange thing is that approx. 1 out of 100 times, pressing the power button actually turns off the machine. As far as I can think of, the only resonable explanation for that would be a little contact error on the button that generates a "double-press", but that's unlikely.



Any ideas on how to eliminate this? I've looked in the BIOS, but changing the seemingly relevant options made no difference.

 

[suszterpatt]

Anyone?

 

[Cuular]

Check the settings in the BIOS related to what happens after power loss. The latest bios I downloaded for my DFI LANPARTY nf4 SLI was actually set by default to go into standby mode after recovering from lost power.

I'm thinking that the QA job was a little rushed to try and get the dual core support. Plus it was a BETA bios, so the "release" one will probably not do that.

 

[suszterpatt]

There's 3 options for "After AC power is lost" in the BIOS, "Off", "On" and "Last state". No matter what I set it to, it has no effect. The comp does this with all 3 settings.


Btw, I flashed my BIOS a couple months ago.

 

[cecco]

The same thing is happening to me. I have the lanparty ultra-d and just flashed to bios 623-2 to. Now when I restart my comp instead of going to the OS it goes into standby.

Then only way I can get back in is by leaving the computer off for about 15 minutes and then it boots just fine.

This doesn't happen all the time either it's random. I still have the cold boot issue even after flashing to the new bios so I wonder If it's somewhat releated.

 

[suszterpatt]

Bump.