Boot up problem

[Goodgeek]

I just a case with some generic 300W power Supply and got a MSI K7T266 Pro 2-A motherboard with a Athalon XP1900 CPU Heat sink and Fan included. I also put in 512mb of DDR Ram and a ATI7500 64MB DDR video card. Sound card and Firewire card, and 10/100 network card. 60GB Western digital 7200 RPM Caviar. DVD drive and Floppy drive. All connections are correct. When I boot up the system powers up for about 4-5 sec. CPU fan comes on and so does the Power Supply fan. Then when it tries to start the video card it shuts down. I tried a different Video card and the same problem. The Card works fine in my older machine also. What can cause this problem and how do i solve it. Dumb founded and lost. Could it be the power supply?
Help!!

 

[xfactordomine]

remove some of your peripherals and try to boot up with only the bare essentials (cpu, hdd, video card) and see if it works. if it does, start adding your components one at a time.
You should be able to troubleshoot everything from there. If it doesn't work, and if you have another video card or power supply lying around.. try those, but it sounds to me that your generic power supply might be the culprit.

i have pretty much the same set up as you, but i'm using an Enermax EG365PVE 350W power supply with 5 case fans, and have no power problems whatsoever.

-X

 

[Benja]

same problem here

couldnt get the agp to work but the pci would work fine

tried another mb and same, then tried it w/o cdroms, agp worked fine

went back to the origional mb did the same with no cdroms

agp still didnt work - waiting to get bigger psu to see if it will power it..

 

[Goodgeek]

Thanks I did try it with just the bare essentials and still the same problem. I guess a new power supply is in order. I will look for one later today and see if that helps.

 

[FrankBlack]

You might want to make sure that the fan for the CPU is plugged into the right fan header. Some mobo's BIOS have a setting to turn itself off right at bootup if the fan is not connected to the right header or the fan itself is not spinning as fast as it should be. I had to reset my bios (unplug power from board and switch jumpers for a second) so that that setting in the BIOS was reset, or you could read your mobo manual and make sure the fan is plugged into the right header it's looking for.

 

[Goodgeek]

The fan is plugged into the right place the CFAN which is the CPU fan plug in the mbo manual. I did replace the power supply and the same problem persists. I got a Antec 350W and it is a lot heavier then the Generic one. I am at a lost maybe i got a bad board or something. I tried a different graphics card and the sme problem and I unplugged everthing but the HD Video card and CPU and the sane problem when it starts the video card the system just shuts down. The new power supply gets it to start faster but also in turn shut down faster. I just don't know what it could be.

 

[xfactordomine]

Is your pc overclocked? This may or may not work, but if so, go back to the default settings in your BIOS. If it's not.. try going back to your default setting anyway
If you can get your hands on another pc, you might want to try flashing to the latest BIOS.

Hope it helps, good luck.

-X

 

[dkozloski]

Take the motherboard out of the case and sit it on the table. Plug in just the bare essentials and give it a try. Tell us what you get.