boot problem with MSI 6330 Lite 3 board and Athlon 1400.

Hi I upgraded from Duron 800 to Athlon 1400, and now I have a boot problem. When I restart from Windows it does not boot anymore, hangs before the BIOS screen, and LED are red red green red. I have a 235 W power ATX supply, is that the problem? When I boot after a few minutes the problem is gone. After being up only one minute and then reboot the problem is there. System runs stable as long as i do not boot, even when running a cpu intensive sim as F1 CS 2000. DOK

On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 00:09:15 +0200, DOK <[email hidden]> wrote: >Hi > >I upgraded from Duron 800 to Athlon 1400, and now I have a boot >problem. When I restart from Windows it does not boot anymore, hangs >before the BIOS screen, and LED are red red green red. I have a 235 W >power ATX supply, is that the problem? Could be. I'm thinking of building/buying an Athlon machine and the word is that you want a 300 watt PS for a typical PC (up to four drives), even more for a server (more drives/devices). Booting/ rebooting is the time when you've got the biggest current draw. :( "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

[email hidden] (Jeff Vincent) wrote in news:[email hidden]: > "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was > nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into > a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark So what WE need is a a mechanical device that attaches to the PC, and smashes a suitably expensive part of it each time we go off the track! -- "Walk like a Syrian" Per Thulin Visit Jane The Hamster's web site at http://w1.541.telia.com/~u54108168/ Spamblock in operation - remove "_no" "spam_" to reply by mail.

I have one of these. It happens whenever I hit the walls while winning in NASCAR 4 or just after overshooting my parking space in GP3 and slamming into the car ahead of me, wrecking both vehicles. It's called my fist and usually it deals the monitor, my keyboard, or both a vicious smack. Unfortunately, the keyboard is not as strong as my monitor and my brand new QuietKey is in keyboard heaven now. Per Thulin <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> [email hidden] (Jeff Vincent) wrote in > news:[email hidden]: > > > "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was > > nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into > > a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark > > So what WE need is a a mechanical device that attaches to the PC, and > smashes a suitably expensive part of it each time we go off the track! > > -- > "Walk like a Syrian" > > Per Thulin > > Visit Jane The Hamster's web site at http://w1.541.telia.com/~u54108168/ > > Spamblock in operation - remove "_no" "spam_" to reply by mail.

> Could be. I'm thinking of building/buying an Athlon machine and >the word is that you want a 300 watt PS for a typical PC (up to four >drives), even more for a server (more drives/devices). Booting/ >rebooting is the time when you've got the biggest current draw. :( I'd agree, the power supply is more than likely the culprit, especially if the only change was to a 1.4ghz athlon. Most places recommend going to a 350W or even a 400W with such high speed CPUs. The current draw is pretty huge on them. Maybe you could borrow a mates PSU to test this out? Rafe Mc

On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 05:14:48 GMT, [email hidden] (Rafe McAuliffe) wrote:

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> >> Could be. I'm thinking of building/buying an Athlon machine and >>the word is that you want a 300 watt PS for a typical PC (up to four >>drives), even more for a server (more drives/devices). Booting/ >>rebooting is the time when you've got the biggest current draw. :( > >I'd agree, the power supply is more than likely the culprit, >especially if the only change was to a 1.4ghz athlon. Most places >recommend going to a 350W or even a 400W with such high speed CPUs. >The current draw is pretty huge on them. > >Maybe you could borrow a mates PSU to test this out? > >Rafe Mc

I have a second PC, with 300 W PSU, but I think I will just buy a new 300 W one, it must be the problem. I dont want to spoil the other pc, not even for a short time. Thanks for the help. DOK

When I built my own PC I ran into a similar problem. Try the following:- Go into BIOS and then Advanced BIOS Settings --> scroll down until you find - "Delay For IDE Initial (Secs) X" (Change X to something like 2 or 3. Mine is set at 2) Certainly worth a try. I am running a GF2 GTS with an Athlon 1Ghz and a 250W power supply. This cured my boot problems. If this doesn't work, try searching the comp newsgroups using Google for an answer http://groups.google.com/ Cheers Stewart DOK <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> Hi > > I upgraded from Duron 800 to Athlon 1400, and now I have a boot > problem. When I restart from Windows it does not boot anymore, hangs > before the BIOS screen, and LED are red red green red. I have a 235 W > power ATX supply, is that the problem? > > When I boot after a few minutes the problem is gone. After being up > only one minute and then reboot the problem is there. System runs > stable as long as i do not boot, even when running a cpu intensive sim > as F1 CS 2000. > > DOK

"Rob Templeton" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:r4hm7.10517$[email hidden]: Didn't think of that! I must admit, my Logitech WingMan FF has taken some punishment in similar fashion. Sturdy piece of equipment, though... <8)

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> I have one of these. It happens whenever I hit the walls while winning > in NASCAR 4 or just after overshooting my parking space in GP3 and > slamming into the car ahead of me, wrecking both vehicles. It's called > my fist and usually it deals the monitor, my keyboard, or both a > vicious smack. Unfortunately, the keyboard is not as strong as my > monitor and my brand new QuietKey is in keyboard heaven now. > > Per Thulin <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... >> [email hidden] (Jeff Vincent) wrote in >> news:[email hidden]: >> >> > "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was >> > nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a >> > motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark >> >> So what WE need is a a mechanical device that attaches to the PC, and >> smashes a suitably expensive part of it each time we go off the track! >> >> -- >> "Walk like a Syrian" >> >> Per Thulin >> >> Visit Jane The Hamster's web site at >> http://w1.541.telia.com/~u54108168/ >> >> Spamblock in operation - remove "_no" "spam_" to reply by mail. > > >

-- "Walk like a Syrian" Per Thulin Visit Jane The Hamster's web site at http://w1.541.telia.com/~u54108168/ Spamblock in operation - remove "_no" "spam_" to reply by mail.