I recently put together a new system and once every hour or so, the system "freezes" without any warning...well here is exactly what happens:
The monitor will turn black and no signal is displayed. The power LED on the case is still on and the Mobo fan can still be heard spinning. CTRL-ALT-DELETE doesn't do anything, nor hitting any keys on the keyboard or mouse.
The only thing that can recover the system at this point is hitting the reset switch. The system then reboots...this is a pain in the neck because it leaves a lot of hard disk errors because of improper shut-down.
One of the AMI BIOS settings is labelled "Power Management Setup". So I disabled all the power management and video off 'features' of this mobo. One of the options is labelled "Restore on AC/Power Loss". The Mobo manual reads:
<< "The settings are power on, power off or last state. During power on, after every AC power loss, the system will be turned on. During last status, after every AC power loss, whatever the system status, it will be the same when the AC power returns." >>
I then changed the setting from "Power Off" to "Power ON"...now the only difference is that the screen turns BLUE instead of BLACK WHEN FREEZING
Here is my system:
MSI K7Pro Motherboard
Athlon 750 mHz Slot A + triple fan
3 x 128 MB PC-100 RAM
300 Watt power supply ATX case
2 Hard disk drives IDE
1 CD-ROM IDE
1 Floppy disk drive
1 ISA sound card
1 PCI Firewire card
1 NIC Card (3com)
1 AGP Matrox video card G400
What is going on here? Is there a short somewhere? Any ideas on what could be causing this ? Thanks
The monitor will turn black and no signal is displayed. The power LED on the case is still on and the Mobo fan can still be heard spinning. CTRL-ALT-DELETE doesn't do anything, nor hitting any keys on the keyboard or mouse.
The only thing that can recover the system at this point is hitting the reset switch. The system then reboots...this is a pain in the neck because it leaves a lot of hard disk errors because of improper shut-down.
One of the AMI BIOS settings is labelled "Power Management Setup". So I disabled all the power management and video off 'features' of this mobo. One of the options is labelled "Restore on AC/Power Loss". The Mobo manual reads:
<< "The settings are power on, power off or last state. During power on, after every AC power loss, the system will be turned on. During last status, after every AC power loss, whatever the system status, it will be the same when the AC power returns." >>
I then changed the setting from "Power Off" to "Power ON"...now the only difference is that the screen turns BLUE instead of BLACK WHEN FREEZING
Here is my system:
MSI K7Pro Motherboard
Athlon 750 mHz Slot A + triple fan
3 x 128 MB PC-100 RAM
300 Watt power supply ATX case
2 Hard disk drives IDE
1 CD-ROM IDE
1 Floppy disk drive
1 ISA sound card
1 PCI Firewire card
1 NIC Card (3com)
1 AGP Matrox video card G400
What is going on here? Is there a short somewhere? Any ideas on what could be causing this ? Thanks