Restarting problems with CUSL2-C motherboard

[ddman]

I have a P3600E overclocked to 800mhz. I have 256mb pc133 ram. I am running Windows ME. I just installed this motherboard and everything works great... EXCEPT when I go to start, shutdown, and choose restart, the operating system will shut down but the screen just stays black. I have to reset my cpu in order for it to reboot then it's fine.

Also, when I go down to start, shutdown and shutdown this time, it starts shutting down to the point where the message says "It's now safe to turn off your computer", but just sits there and my computer doesn't power down.

Does anyone know what the problem is? I have the latest bios 1006 beta 3. The same thing happens with bios 1003. So, I know it's not the updated bios...

Thanks for any feedbacks guys... I am lost.

 

[CraigRT]

well because I don't know any of your settings for your hardware to me it kinda sounds like a weird PSU issue.
I've never had any such problems, that's kinda weird.

It works fine other than the fact that you have to manually reboot, etc?

 

[ddman]

Yes, everything works fine.

The only thing overclocked on my computer is the cpu.

The computer rebooted fine before I installed this motherboard.

That's really too weird.

 

[CraigRT]

Well I have limited knowledge regarding things like this because I've never experienced that.
but going from what I do know. sounds like PSU/power management or some sort of hardware conflict which I would be unsure of.. possibly disabling legacy USB might fix..

not too sure, but good luck on finding out more!

 

[percboy]

I have the same problem..., cusl2-c, 566 celeron @850, 1006 bios, not to mention this "cold boot" problem

 

[percboy]

could a lower end power supply (250 watt) cause this? Thanks

 

[yz426]

check out cusl2.com

 

[AndyHui]

Nothing to do with the cold boot problem. This WILL fix your problem:

You have an SBLive? Then you need to do the following, otherwise Win98 won't restart/shutdown properly:

Enable LPT Interrupt Sharing in the SB Emulation Device in the device manager.

Disable the DOS SB Emulation in the device manager (optional).

Set IRQ 5 Reserved to Yes in PCI/PNP Resource Exclusion list in the BIOS.

Disable Legacy USB in the BIOS.

 

[ALstonLoong]

andy is that cause by SB live ?

 

[AndyHui]

Yes, it is an issue with the SBLive.

 

[ALstonLoong]

oic ..thanks andy.Luckily i know this before i buy a live drive..... i am getting my live drive from local store on wednesday. Ohya will this happen in win2k too ?

 

[AndyHui]

This has nothing to do with the LiveDrive.....just the SBLive card itself. There is no problem with Win2K restarts and the SBLive.

Buying a LiveDrive will cause problems for Suspend to RAM and may stop you from hibernating in Win2K due to Creative's driver problems under Win2K. This has nothing to do with the CUSL2.

 

[ErikP]

<< Nothing to do with the cold boot problem. This WILL fix your problem:

You have an SBLive? Then you need to do the following, otherwise Win98 won't restart/shutdown properly:

Enable LPT Interrupt Sharing in the SB Emulation Device in the device manager.

Disable the DOS SB Emulation in the device manager (optional).

Set IRQ 5 Reserved to Yes in PCI/PNP Resource Exclusion list in the BIOS.

Disable Legacy USB in the BIOS. >>



You shouldn't have to do all of these, I think. I had the shutdown problem as well, and it was enough for me to either set IRQ5 as reserved, or enable LPT interrupt sharing. In the former case, IRQ5 will only be used by the SB16 emulation, in the latter case SB16 emulation will use IRQ7, which is shared with LPT1. Besides, if you dsiable SB16 emulation in the device manager, none of the above mentioned things are necessary. I haven't tried the legacy USB option, so I can't comment on that.

In general, these shutdown/restart problems are caused by sharing of interrupts for devices that cannot correctly cope with it, such as SB16 emulation. The SB Live! itself does ok with IRQ sharing, only SB16 emulation doesn't because it acts like an ISA device (like the old SB Pro), and IRQ sharing doesn't work with ISA devices.

 

[ddman]

Thanks.

I got so frustrated however over the weekend, that I just went ahead and reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows 2000. NO problem whatsoever now. But thank you for the reply. It will definitively help in the future.

Thanks guys!