Re: This MUST be a bad motherboard--right? SOLVED
- From: "Adam Corolla" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:25:14 -0500
"Adam Corolla" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a system with the following:
Motherboard-----Albatron KX18D Pro II with a NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra400/MCP-T
chipset
Memory--------512 MB Corsair
CPU----- Athlon XP 2500+
Since this system was built, there's been a problem--Windows will not shut
down. When you tell Windows to shutdown, it restarts the computer.
Here are some things I've tried to fix this:
1. Updated the BIOS to the latest version.
2. Disconnected all peripherals except the main hard drive and
floppy--still restarts instead of shutting down
3. Unplugged all switches (power, reset) and LEDs (Power LED, HDD LED,
etc) from the motherboard and tried shutting down Windows. I was thinking
a faulty switch was shorting the startup pins, but it still restarted
instead of shutting down.
4. Replaced the boot drive (still nothing else connected but the floppy)
and put a fresh install of Windows XP on it with nothing else. Same
problem.
5. Replaced the power supply with a much higher-wattage, high-quality one.
Still no fix.
At this point I'm thinking it has to be a defective motherboard--I can't
see how the RAM or CPU could possibly fail in such a way as to cause this.
On the other hand, there's a chance it could be the floppy, modem or video
card, those are the ONLY other things in the system I haven't replaced or
checked.
So, I am going to try disconnecting the floppy and modem and swapping out
the video card to see if that has any effect.
It was the video card! I was using a Rage 128 PCI card. I swapped it for a
Matrox Millennium G400. I was able to shut down the system successfully! I
retried a number of times and every time I was able to shut down. Whee!
.
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