Greetings,
Bought a new Asus ROG Rampage III Gene motherboard with an i7 950 and 12 gigs of Patrior Viper2 Sector-7 DDR3 1600 Ram. I have been experiencing a very strange issue. The installation went fine and the system booted and I went ahead and installed Windows 7 without any issues. But as soon as I shutdown the computer it wont boot up again until it has remained powered off for a few minutes (generally 4-5 minutes sometimes much less).
Note that the computer runs flawlessly while it is on. Have run prime95 for a few hours and have had no crashes what so ever. The cpu is not overclocked and peaks at about 67C when stress testing in prime95. The temp is a tad higher for my liking but well within the safe range.
So basically the computer runs fine, I can game, I can run prime95 with 100% stability (it posts with 1 beep meaning everything is fine), but as soon as I shutdown the computer it wont boot for another 5 mins or so of being unpowered. I have to switch off the PSU for a few minutes then switch it back on to boot the system again. Note that it restarts fine but only causes problems after a complete shutdown.
The rest of my hardware is an Asus EAH 5870 and my PSU is a Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W. The psu is from my old computer and is about 2 years old. It was working fine on my older system so I dint feel the need to buy a new one. It is about 2.5 years old and my old system used to be switched on almost 24*7.
Im at my wits end as to whats causing this. Ive tried using RAM modules one by one and have the same issue. Is this an indication of a dying PSU or a faulty motherboard? Any help would be much appreciated
Bought a new Asus ROG Rampage III Gene motherboard with an i7 950 and 12 gigs of Patrior Viper2 Sector-7 DDR3 1600 Ram. I have been experiencing a very strange issue. The installation went fine and the system booted and I went ahead and installed Windows 7 without any issues. But as soon as I shutdown the computer it wont boot up again until it has remained powered off for a few minutes (generally 4-5 minutes sometimes much less).
Note that the computer runs flawlessly while it is on. Have run prime95 for a few hours and have had no crashes what so ever. The cpu is not overclocked and peaks at about 67C when stress testing in prime95. The temp is a tad higher for my liking but well within the safe range.
So basically the computer runs fine, I can game, I can run prime95 with 100% stability (it posts with 1 beep meaning everything is fine), but as soon as I shutdown the computer it wont boot for another 5 mins or so of being unpowered. I have to switch off the PSU for a few minutes then switch it back on to boot the system again. Note that it restarts fine but only causes problems after a complete shutdown.
The rest of my hardware is an Asus EAH 5870 and my PSU is a Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W. The psu is from my old computer and is about 2 years old. It was working fine on my older system so I dint feel the need to buy a new one. It is about 2.5 years old and my old system used to be switched on almost 24*7.
Im at my wits end as to whats causing this. Ive tried using RAM modules one by one and have the same issue. Is this an indication of a dying PSU or a faulty motherboard? Any help would be much appreciated