I believe that what I'm seeing here is a defective motherboard, but who knows, it wouldn't be the first time I'd been wrong.
Here's the deal: building new computer for little brother, who's off to college. Using an ASUS A7V and TBird 1 GHz. Put the entire system together, excluding expansion cards besides the video, and plugged the power cable in the back. When I flipped the toggle on the power supply, the computer booted by itself, without me so much as looking at the actual power switch. I turned it off, thinking there was a serious problem here. I started eliminating variables (shorts, connections to power switches, connections to drives, connections to switches and LEDs, etc.) until I was left with a motherboard, a processor and a cooling fan. It still boots itself when the power supply switch is on.
Is this a problem with the board's internal ATX logic switch for soft on? Am I retarded? Should I throw the box out the window? Perhaps slice my wrists with the generic pc-133 RAM I purchased?
If you've got any real suggestions, i would be so glad to hear 'em.
Here's the deal: building new computer for little brother, who's off to college. Using an ASUS A7V and TBird 1 GHz. Put the entire system together, excluding expansion cards besides the video, and plugged the power cable in the back. When I flipped the toggle on the power supply, the computer booted by itself, without me so much as looking at the actual power switch. I turned it off, thinking there was a serious problem here. I started eliminating variables (shorts, connections to power switches, connections to drives, connections to switches and LEDs, etc.) until I was left with a motherboard, a processor and a cooling fan. It still boots itself when the power supply switch is on.
Is this a problem with the board's internal ATX logic switch for soft on? Am I retarded? Should I throw the box out the window? Perhaps slice my wrists with the generic pc-133 RAM I purchased?
If you've got any real suggestions, i would be so glad to hear 'em.