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Restart problem
I have a strange restart problem. If I select shutdown the computer will
shutdown like it's suppose to but if I select restart the monitor will lose the video feed and the computer will just hang. I have to press the reset button to get it to restart. Now here's the background information. I have an Antec case with a 300 watt power supply. I have an Intel D875PBZ motherboard with 512 MB memory operating in dual channel mode. I have an Intel 2.6 GHz processor with hyperthreading turned on. I have Maxtor 30 GB hard drive, a sony cd-rom drive, and a basic floppy drive. I also have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 pci sound card. When I first built the machine I installed a cheap Nvidia 2 pci video card. I installed Windows XP on it and the machine would restart fine until I decide to install the video drivers that came with the video card. That's when the restart problem started occuring. I removed the video drivers and went back to the XP drivers and the restart problem went away. So I figured the problem was with the video card's drivers. I then decided to remove the Nvidia card and replace it with an AGP card, an ATI Radeon 9000. Once again the machine would restart normally with the XP drivers but would hang during a restart after the ATI drivers were installed. The other day I started the computer in safe mode so I could go into the security settings and give myself permission to view the system volume information folder and when I selected restart the computer restarted just fine. When I got back into normal Windows I selected restart again to see what would happen and the computer restarted just fine. When I shutdown the computer and turned it off and then went back a few hours later the restart problem was back. |
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DJS0302 wrote:
Kony wrote (DJS0302) wrote: I have a strange restart problem. The carriage return on your keyboard has a problem too. Excuse me? Your previous post consisted of one monolythic (and thus largely unintelligible) block of text, lacking any sign of paragraphing, which in turn indicates the failure of your 'return' or 'enter' key. -- Chuck F ) ) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. http://cbfalconer.home.att.net USE worldnet address! |
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DJS0302 said in :
I have a strange restart problem. If I select shutdown the computer will shutdown like it's suppose to but if I select restart the monitor will lose the video feed and the computer will just hang. I have to press the reset button to get it to restart. Now here's the background information. I have an Antec case with a 300 watt power supply. I have an Intel D875PBZ motherboard with 512 MB memory operating in dual channel mode. I have an Intel 2.6 GHz processor with hyperthreading turned on. I have Maxtor 30 GB hard drive, a sony cd-rom drive, and a basic floppy drive. I also have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 16 pci sound card. When I first built the machine I installed a cheap Nvidia 2 pci video card. I installed Windows XP on it and the machine would restart fine until I decide to install the video drivers that came with the video card. That's when the restart problem started occuring. I removed the video drivers and went back to the XP drivers and the restart problem went away. So I figured the problem was with the video card's drivers. I then decided to remove the Nvidia card and replace it with an AGP card, an ATI Radeon 9000. Once again the machine would restart normally with the XP drivers but would hang during a restart after the ATI drivers were installed. The other day I started the computer in safe mode so I could go into the security settings and give myself permission to view the system volume information folder and when I selected restart the computer restarted just fine. When I got back into normal Windows I selected restart again to see what would happen and the computer restarted just fine. When I shutdown the computer and turned it off and then went back a few hours later the restart problem was back. 300W might be a tad on the short side for power. Unplug the power from your floppy drive and your CD-ROM drive and yank the Soundblaster card and see if the problem goes away. Since you'll have the cover off, you might want to check voltages before and after yanking the devices from having power. Don't bother using the video drivers that came with the video card. They are probably over a year, or more, old. Download the latest versions from the maker's web site. Although Windows XP might include the drivers for the 875 chipset on the Intel motherboard, you might want to try downloading what Intel considers the latest chipset driver at http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/bz_drive.htm. A BIOS update might also be needed (http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bz/bz_bios.htm). Don't know how old is your motherboard; tech specs for motherboards at Intel's site don't reveal when they were released. Check the BIOS is configured to let the OS handle the ACPI funtions instead of the BIOS handling them. -- __________________________________________________ __________ *** Post replies to newsgroup. Share with others. *** Email domain = ".com" *AND* append "=NEWS=" to Subject. __________________________________________________ __________ |
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