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Power supply problem? Need input, bad!
This is about the Old Homebuild that boots and runs normally -- but you
have to wait 8 - 10 MINUTES first. A few good people offered advice and I followed it, but no luck yet. The thing is, NOTHING happens with this Celeron 400 homebuild for many minutes. The fans run, but the FDD, HDD, and keyboard show no life or activity and are silent. Then there's a beep, the hard drive spins up, etc. and *voilą* it's running like it didn't know anything was wrong. The DOS routine on the monitor stops to tell me the CPU "is corrupted or has been changed," meaning the BIOS went to its default settings (300MHz; A,C,SCSI sequence). But it runs. I thought maybe I corrupted the BIOS in an aborted visit to a site that had an updated version. But if that were true, the PC wouldn't boot *at all* right? Well, boot times grew longer until it really looked done for. I tore everything down to the bare case, put back the minimum for booting. Nothing. Found that I'd inverted the floppy connector and fixed it. Still wouldn't get past the fans-whirring stage. The monitor (back to the old Hitachi CRT) just blinked at me. The system's plugged directly to a different wall socket now, and I'm able to post this because it finally decided to boot. I just dared it to live and went to get dinner so I don't know *when* it booted, but after I powered down and re-assembled, it took a good THIRTY minutes. So -- if you're still reading, bless you -- while I can still get online, does this look like a problem with the power supply? Scott Mueller's book speaks of a Power_Good signal that the PS sends to the motherboard, meaning that the power supply can "maintain outputs within regulation tolerance...The system will not restart until the Power_Good signal returns." Sound likely?? Or bad BIOS? I don't have much confidence that it's the different wall socket. JM |
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DemoDisk wrote:
This is about the Old Homebuild that boots and runs normally -- but you have to wait 8 - 10 MINUTES first. A few good people offered advice and I followed it, but no luck yet. The thing is, NOTHING happens with this Celeron 400 homebuild for many minutes. The fans run, but the FDD, HDD, and keyboard show no life or activity and are silent. Then there's a beep, the hard drive spins up, etc. and *voilą* it's running like it didn't know anything was wrong. The DOS routine on the monitor stops to tell me the CPU "is corrupted or has been changed," meaning the BIOS went to its default settings (300MHz; A,C,SCSI sequence). But it runs. You probably have the bios and hardware configured to auto-adapt to a drive that isn't there, and the adapt mechanism is timing out. Configuring a master when there is no slave can do this. -- "If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on "show options" at the top of the article, then click on the "Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson |
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