Strange boot behavior K8V

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I just bought a brand new Asus k8v with a AMD Athlon 64 3000.

I work in the IT field and never saw such a boot behavior. I was just
wondering if it's normal. When pushing power, my computer starts, showing
the ASUS ugly full screen logo, then, my computer makes a sound like it's
shuting down(like all the power leaves the computer) and then restard
instantly, continuing the boot process. Is this normal behavior? I have an
Enermax 350W PS, is this enough? For accessories, all I have is one IDE WD
60Gb HD, one DVD reader, one CD burner, Sound Blaster audigy 2 ZS and a
Radeon 9700 PRO. That's it. I'm experiencing some stability issues, and
this weird boot up makes me think that's the problem.

Thanks!

 

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 13:02:30 GMT, "Ai.Learning"
<N0__SP3Mtremor_christ@hotmail.comN0___SP3M> wrote:

>I just bought a brand new Asus k8v with a AMD Athlon 64 3000.
>
>I work in the IT field and never saw such a boot behavior. I was just
>wondering if it's normal. When pushing power, my computer starts, showing
>the ASUS ugly full screen logo, then, my computer makes a sound like it's
>shuting down(like all the power leaves the computer) and then restard
>instantly, continuing the boot process. Is this normal behavior? I have an
>Enermax 350W PS, is this enough? For accessories, all I have is one IDE WD
>60Gb HD, one DVD reader, one CD burner, Sound Blaster audigy 2 ZS and a
>Radeon 9700 PRO. That's it. I'm experiencing some stability issues, and
>this weird boot up makes me think that's the problem.

I have a 3400+ with the same power supply, similar drives (more of
them) and the same sound card (but an NVIDIA video) and I get a
perfectly normal boot. Sounds like a hardware thing to me, board or
power supply. My system's sturdy as an anvil, it's never burped once.

 

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> I have a 3400+ with the same power supply, similar drives (more of
> them) and the same sound card (but an NVIDIA video) and I get a
> perfectly normal boot. Sounds like a hardware thing to me, board or
> power supply. My system's sturdy as an anvil, it's never burped once.

Ok, thanks!! That's giving me a good pointer. I'll try another video card
just for diag purposes, since that's the only things that differs from me!
I was about to change my Power supply, but since it's doing the job for
you..

Thanks man!

 

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HI,
you can disable "Fast Boot" in Bios Option.
may give your machine bit more time to run up all fans and other
things....??

ati 9700 is hungr too, i dont remember where ...xbitlabs
....anandtech....tomshardware ...where i found an article about power
consumption of actual grafic cards

regards jk

 

[Tim]

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Pull out the DVD and CD, swap to a simple 2d graphics card if you have one
and see if it improves. If it does then I would be thinking PSU...

- Tim

"Ai.Learning" <N0__SP3Mtremor_christ@hotmail.comN0___SP3M> wrote in message
news:bul2d.128891$Np3.5540623@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>> I have a 3400+ with the same power supply, similar drives (more of
>> them) and the same sound card (but an NVIDIA video) and I get a
>> perfectly normal boot. Sounds like a hardware thing to me, board or
>> power supply. My system's sturdy as an anvil, it's never burped once.
>
> Ok, thanks!! That's giving me a good pointer. I'll try another video card
> just for diag purposes, since that's the only things that differs from me!
> I was about to change my Power supply, but since it's doing the job for
> you..
>
> Thanks man!
>

 

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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:05:43 GMT, "Ai.Learning"
<N0__SP3Mtremor_christ@hotmail.comN0___SP3M> wrote:

>> I have a 3400+ with the same power supply, similar drives (more of
>> them) and the same sound card (but an NVIDIA video) and I get a
>> perfectly normal boot. Sounds like a hardware thing to me, board or
>> power supply. My system's sturdy as an anvil, it's never burped once.
>
>Ok, thanks!! That's giving me a good pointer. I'll try another video card
>just for diag purposes, since that's the only things that differs from me!
>I was about to change my Power supply, but since it's doing the job for
>you..
I agree with the other guy, your power supply may not have enough
grunt for that video card. I know I'm running pretty close to the
limit on mine. I just happened to get a P.S. with maybe a bit more
than spec output. My video card is only a 128mb Geforce 4 - and it
caused my older P.S. to give up.