Re: HELP A8V Deluxe Start up Problem

Followed your suggestion, taking the items out and unpluging all
except one hard drive and the CD, and my video card.
The problem remained, no change, had to push the reset to start the
unit......
Checking the hardware monitor in the bios, all voltages remained very
close to the 12, 5, 3.3 none going under those voltages..

Thanks for your suggestion

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:26:07 GMT, nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul) wrote:

>In article <uud6h1p059ksnqd5m5ij6pj64f51g6bcmv@xxxxxxx>, Willi Wonka
><stan4yy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I just got an A8V Deluxe motherboard and been having a problem in
>> starting up the computer.
>> When I press the on/off button, the system does go through the check
>> of equipment, and then just sits there, there is no bios boot and no
>> video
>> In order for me to get the bios to start it's boot and video, I have
>> to press the restart button once or twice.........then the bios boots
>> goes through all the equipment info, and I get one beep with the
>> message from the bios OverClocking Faliar........
>> I then press the F1 the bios goes into setup mode, I then press
>> F10 for save settings...........and then the bios re-starts normaly,
>> and my computer boot the OS.........no other problems.
>> I got the latest bios file from Asus, according to Asus Bios 1013 is
>> the first one that accepts my CPU, so I got both the 1013 and 1014,
>> use both and have the same problem, with the additional problem in the
>> 1014 that it looses all input settings and reverts to defaul settings
>> wthich does not happen in the 1013.
>>
>> My System
>> AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400
>> 1024 DDR 400 PC3200
>> MIS GeForce FX 5900 Ultra Video Card AGP
>> Creative Live 24 Sound Card
>> Digital Audio Lab Card Deluxe Sound Card
>> 2- Western Digital 250Gig Hard Drives IDE
>> 1- Western Digital 250Gig Hard Drive SATA
>> Antec Case with 350 ATX 2.0 Smart Power Supply
>>
>> I've have read in this group that there have been problem with Antec
>> power supplies with some Asus boards, could this be the cause of my
>> problems??
>
>If this was an Antec problem, the board would not have started
>at all. If you can coax it to start, then it is not a latch-off
>overcurrent problem. (With the Antec problem, the Vcore converter
>on the board would not recover from detecting overcurrent, until
>the computer was switched off and on at the back of the computer.
>No amount of pushing reset would recover from that overcurrent
>circuit.)
>
>If I have the right supply spec, your smart power is:
>3.3@22A 5@21A 12V1@10A 12V2@15A
>
>According to amdcompare.com, your processor is 110 watts, or
>10.19 amps at 90% conversion efficiency from the 12V2 supply.
>
>The 12V1 runs the disks, fans, video card, and anything
>else needing 12V. Your video card is 3.75A under load and
>1.83A idle in the BIOS.
>
>http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/ati-vs-nv-power_6.html
>
>Three drives @ 0.5A each plus 1 amp for fans plus 3.75 is still
>not over the limit for the 10A rating.
>
>So it isn't necessarily a power problem. But the fact that it
>initializes on the second try, suggests there wasn't enough power
>on the first try. (The three disks draw 2 amps each during spinup,
>but the video card will be drawing idle current.)
>
>Strip the system to bare essentials. Remove the two sound cards,
>only have one disk drive, a CD to load Windows or Linux, and
>tell us how that works. Use the hardware monitor in the BIOS
>to check the power supply voltages. Unfortunately, both 12V1
>and 12V2 are not measured, and it could be that only the 12V1
>disk and mobo rail is measured. I would expect that 12V reading
>to be well loaded, while the 3.3V and 5V will be lightly
>loaded by comparison.
>
>If the machine starts every time, with a stripped set of hardware,
>that would suggest there isn't enough power for the load.
>
>HTH,
> Paul
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