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moodster   10-24-2004 at 11:48:27 PM

Just built a new system yesterday. Everything was working OK, XP running, both hard disks formatted. Just made a couple of changes to the BIOS and now it keeps restarting.

System is Asus K8N-E, Athlon 64 3200+, 2x512Mb Crucial Ballistix, Xfx 5900XT, 2x200Gb SATA Seagate Barracuda (non-RAID), NEC DVD/CD, all inside an Antec Sonata with 380W PSU.

BIOS recognises graphics card, cpu, memory, initialises USB controllers. Then the BIOS restarts and repeats the whole process.

Last thing I did was disable the SI SATA controller (I'm using the nVidia SATA controller. Also I disabled the MAC 802.3.

I can't run setup in the BIOS (when I press 'del' it says it's going to enter setup but never gets there) and therefore can't really do anything.

I tried booting up using the XP CD. I can hear the NEC drive starting to speed up but then the BIOS restarts.

Any ideas?

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Crashman   10-25-2004 at 01:53:39 AM
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Reset BIOS, there should be a "CLR-CMOS" jumper somewhere, or flip the battery over for a few seconds to ground the contacts. Do that with the thing unplugged.

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moodster   10-25-2004 at 09:52:23 AM
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Thanks Crashman. Worked a treat. Pity the Asus manual is less than informative on many of the BIOS options.

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