Suddenly cannot restart

[lenjack]

As of today, I can not restart my computer, using start > shutdown > restart. Ctrl-Alt-Delete will not do it, nor will reset. I can shut down and then boot up with no problem. When I try to restart, the screen goes black, the monitor light goes to amber and will not go to green. At the same time I get a nonstop beep message....1 second beep followed by 4 seconds silence followed by 1 second beep in a continuous pattern.

W98, all critical updates
Athlon 1333 at 1507 (11x137) with Arctic Silver and Swiftech 462a HSF
256M Crucial pc2100 ram
Abit KR7a, bios 7G or 9n
maxtor 40G 7200 HD, ata 100
Enermax 365 ps
Sony 52x cd
Liteon 40x cdrw
Santa Cruz sound

I flashed the bios from 7g to 9n yesterday. Thinking it was the bios, I switched back to 7g with no difference (very simple using the bios savior. Aside from this, the computer works perfectly.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Len

 

[lenjack]

Update...reinstalled W98, thorough scandisk, thorough Norton Windoctor (5 hours, 35 minutes), killed all startup group items in msconfig. No change. I checked the powersupply voltages at the mobo connector while running. All were fine (5 volt line reads 4.97 as usual), except there was no voltage at green connector.

 

[lenjack]

bump - pleeze

 

[Von]

I have been having the same problem, whether I restart through windows, or even the restart button on the case. My monitor light goes amber and the CD-ROM's light up too. My only option is to shut down using the case power supply button. Interestingly enough, when I power up again, I do not get the blue screen in windows, which leads me to believe that windows is shutting down alright.

OS: Windows 98 SE
MB: ECS K7S5A

Have you tried playing with the power management functions, like ACPI?

 

[lenjack]

Fixed. It was a bios setting. DCLK Feedback Delay neds to be set to "auto".