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Helping a friend build a computer. We have windows 98se installed and all the drivers. Sometimes when doing a restart or during power up all the fans come on and the hard drive crunches a little but thats it. No beeps or nothing. Then if you hit the reset button it boots up. Any ideas?

It has an Athlon classic 700 and Asus K7M mobo.
 
One possibility is that the hard drive is slow to spin up and isn't seen by the bios in time. If your bios has an IDE delay setting... try putting a 3 or 4 in there if its 0 right now.
 
I'll check, but wouldn't it still load up the bios and stuff.

It does have an older hard drive in it. It is a 3.x gig or something like that.
 
It seems to do it every time I try to do a reset instead of shutdown. The screen will go black like it is going to do a reset and the fans keep running but it doesn't boot back up. I have to hold the power button down for about 4 or 5 seconds to get it to turn off then when I push the power button it boots up normally.
 
If you mean under 98SE when you choose restart computer (not hitting the reset switch) then it could be an operating system issue. Have you run through MS recommended updates for 98SE? I know there were some shutdown issues that were fixed... not sure if there were any issues with restart... although I bet it would be related (software not finishing its shutdown so it can't restart).

Try running windows update from inside of Internet explorer and see how many recommended updates there are. Depending on your internet connection... you could be a while 🙂. Solved my shutdown problem I had about a year ago.
 
Does this only happen after the system has been off for awhile? The same things were happening to my system every time I had it shut off for very long. My Voodoo 3 was the culprit. I upgraded to a Radeon 64 and it solved the issue.
 
I had that same problem with my 1.2 Ghz Tbird and Asus A7V rev 1.02

The problem was that I had enabled BIOS controlled voltage regulating, when infact only rev 1.04+ had those truly implemented into BIOS. I turned off that feature and went back to jumper settings and everything worked fine.

Have you upgraded any drivers, firmware recently? It's probably software related, or some setting in BIOS maybe?

Also try turning off energy saving features in the BIOS and Windows, that may help.
 
Actually that does sound like it could be a power management issue. Try disabling power management in the BIOS. My computer would just sit there with a blank screen when I messed with my power management settings. Never did determine what option(s) were the culprits. Sorry.
 
Power management crap in bios is disabled.

I have combed through the bios many times already with no luck.

Could it be this old power supply? It is an atx but it is old. It doesn't even have a power switch on it.

This is a new assembly so None of the drivers have been updated.


Every once in a while it will do it on initial power up. The fans will come on and I will hear the hd crunch briefly but nothing happens. I hit the reset button and then it will boot.
 
Sounds to me like it could be the power supply, or some other piece of hardware. I doubt it's software related.

I was inclined to blame my problem on the motherboard or the RAM and it turned out to be a flaky video card. I figured that out by systematically removing hardware and testing the system.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.
 
I don't think it is software related either since it will do it sometimes on initial power up before anything can load. I guess I will pull out the modem and see if it still does it.
 
Well it turned out to be my modem. Pulled it out and it does restarts just fine. Installed a different one and everything works great.
 
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