(hopefully) minor GA-VT600(L) issue

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Hey, I've just intalled a new Gigabyte GA-VT600(L) mainboard for my system
(see specs
below) I have a Kobian Mercury 300W PSU, admittely isn't alot of power but
it seems to be handling the system at the moment.

The system works fine except for one issue when I choose shutdown from the
Windows startmenu, the system closes windows as usual, and powers down, but
only for a split second, it then powers itself back up and restarts. This
can't be good for my hardware so I'm trying to work out the problem asap!
I've checked motherboard powerbutton/led connections and all seem correct.
I've also played around with some PowerManagment settings in BIOS with no
luck.

Another power problem is, during bootup, if I press the power button instead
of turning off it just restarts, just like the windows shutdown. Only
difference is if I carry out the cycle of pressing the button usually on the
third press it shuts down completely. The board is REV 2.0 and BIOS is F9 I
think!

It's almost like the motherboard/power supply is always receiving the PWR_ON
status signal. Maybe a short somewhere?

AMD XP2600+, not overclocked
Gigabyte GA-VT600(L)
256Mb PC2700 Corsair memory,
40Gb Maxtor HD
Win XP Prof SP1
Lite-On CDRW
Thermaltake V2000a case

TIA,
Alistair

 

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I'll answer my own question - I'd missed one of the power managment options
in BIOS - disabling 'Wake up on PME Event' fixed it nicely!

AC


"A Cowan" <ally@cowan1057.(NOSPAM).freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:c9nglh$agn$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hey, I've just intalled a new Gigabyte GA-VT600(L) mainboard for my system
> (see specs
> below) I have a Kobian Mercury 300W PSU, admittely isn't alot of power but
> it seems to be handling the system at the moment.
>
> The system works fine except for one issue when I choose shutdown from the
> Windows startmenu, the system closes windows as usual, and powers down,
but
> only for a split second, it then powers itself back up and restarts. This
> can't be good for my hardware so I'm trying to work out the problem asap!
> I've checked motherboard powerbutton/led connections and all seem correct.
> I've also played around with some PowerManagment settings in BIOS with no
> luck.
>
> Another power problem is, during bootup, if I press the power button
instead
> of turning off it just restarts, just like the windows shutdown. Only
> difference is if I carry out the cycle of pressing the button usually on
the
> third press it shuts down completely. The board is REV 2.0 and BIOS is F9
I
> think!
>
> It's almost like the motherboard/power supply is always receiving the
PWR_ON
> status signal. Maybe a short somewhere?
>
> AMD XP2600+, not overclocked
> Gigabyte GA-VT600(L)
> 256Mb PC2700 Corsair memory,
> 40Gb Maxtor HD
> Win XP Prof SP1
> Lite-On CDRW
> Thermaltake V2000a case
>
> TIA,
> Alistair
>
>
>
>