Sometimes I don't get Post Screen

[SteelCityFan]

I have a 1.8A on a TH7-II Raid motherboard (not using raid though), and an Antec sx635 case. Once in awhile, I hit the power button, and it never gets to the post screen... no beep, nothing. The system is on (fans, etc), but the PC does not boot. I then hit reset, and it boots up fine.

Any ideas?

 

[LordAccord]

This happens to me after a soft shutdown on my Asus CUV4xD... Im starting to think that maybe its a bios problem, or something to do with how the power is on the motherboard.... if I press the power button to shut down, as in I force it to shutdown, then it boots fine... but if I let windows shut the computer off, the next time without fail it will power the system up but not post (and I know that its dead because my iPanel will not display any boot codes...pretty handy to knowing when its not booting)....

Have you assessed whether your problem only occurs after a windows shutdown? try booting to a win98 boot floppy ro something for a couple of times and just turning the power off with the button....see if it works then.....

If not, the only way I know around it is to shut the power off until it completely kills power to the motherboard and then flip the switch and go. Thats the only way I can fix it other than rebooting after the initial power-on

LoRdAccord

 

[SteelCityFan]

Mine does it only when the system has been turned off completely. I have never seen it happen just frrom say restarting. It probably does it one in 5 times.. maybe a little less.

 

[dkozloski]

I use to have this problem until I tried another keyboard. In fact I tried about three or four until I found one that worked. The way I determined it was the keyboard was that I disconnected it and tried booting after the machine sat idle for a while. It would boot every time or at least proceed as far as a keyboard error. I found a KeyTronic would work flawlessly by trial and error.

 

[SteelCityFan]

I just noticed that Abit has a new BIOS out for the TH7II/TH7II-Raid motherboards... here are the changes / fixes / etc.


Support NorthWood 2.4G(100x24) CPU.
Support P4 Celeron CPU.
Raise the adjustable CPU Core Voltage for 0.13 micron process P4 (Northwood).
Fix occasional no POST with debug code 26 issue while "Fixed AGP=66" option was enabled in SoftmenuIII.
Support up to 137GB HDD and above.
HPT 37x BIOS version 2.0.1024. The RAID function is for TH7II-RAID only. This BIOS version is also for non RAID boards and HPT BIOS will be automatically disabled while RAID controller chip not detected.
BIOS compile date: 4/19/2002.


Looks like this will fix my problem. I'll have to DL it as soon as I get home...