wierd mobo problem

[SHawn Pickett]

I just purchased a new Gigabyte GA-7VRX Mobo, AMD Athlon XP 2000, and a 256 meg stick of PC 2100 ddr ram. Using my old Voodoo 3 3500 Graphics card, 2 Maxtor Hard drives, Creative dvd drive, HP CDR CDRW, Sound Blaster Live Value, Creative DVD decoder. the ATX case has a 400 watt AMD certified P/S. When is have it clocked at a 133 bus it runs fine but when I shut it down it will not turn back on unless I let it sit off for a while, the drives spin up, the keyboard comes on, but I get no video to the monitor. I immediatly updated to the latest bios for my mobo. I have the latest drivers installed. I tried removing all of the cards except the Video card. Also is I run it at 100 Mhz bus it will shut down and the start fine. I should also say that at 133 Mhz bus, I can restart fine, it only does it if I completly power down and then try to power up immediatly. I can live with it, but it kind of bothers me.

[Uranium-235]

you're running a 2X video card (voodoo) on a 4x motherboard. go into your cmos options and see if thiers an option to change your agp port to 2x. 2X voltage is more then 4X. So you're powering a video card with less voltage then it requires. Which might be the problem

[eviltechie]

u should just put it in auto for the front side bus just to be safe to fine out if its a the problem or not...
it shouldnt cause its the chip that does the doubling to 266 but just to be on the safe side...

[Shawn Pickett]

Switched the AGP to 2x, did not help the problem, but after what was said I'm going to leave it at 2x. The FSB has a hardware switch on the MOBO for 100 or 133, you can change it in the BIOS for over clocking (I'm not overclocking it by the way). The multiplier is set to auto and is going to 12.5 + automatically (this yields the correct processor speed according to the chips specs). This is an AMD box processor by the way with a stock AMD cooler and the processors stay around 50 degrees celcius no matter what.

[Uranium-235]

50 is bare minimum for stablity. get something better

[eviltechie]

not really
60 is point where u should start worrying

50 is fine
TBs and first gen Athlons can go up to 92C

so no need if he isnt OCing

check for plugs and see if all components are fitted properly

[Uranium-235]

no 50 is the minimum stable temp according to alot of people I know. at 98C your die will die.

[eviltechie]

hahah
funny but...

WRONG!


http://www.heatsink-guide.com/maxtemp.htm
http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm

cooling freaks like me are just afraid of having it even above 50
yeah? so?

that doesnt mean above 50 it will die...

[Shawn Pickett]

Besides in my experience overheating usually causes lockups and other wierd problems (bsod, programs crashing, ect.). The only problem I've got is if I shut down it won't display video when I turn the power back on (the hard drives and cd-rom drives spin up, not sure if it is doing anything else though.) I'm starting to wonder if it is not something with my memory.

[Shawn Pickett]

Besides in my experience overheating usually causes lockups and other wierd problems (bsod, programs crashing, ect.). The only problem I've got is if I shut down it won't display video when I turn the power back on (the hard drives and cd-rom drives spin up, not sure if it is doing anything else though.) I'm starting to wonder if it is not something with my memory.

[Uranium-235]

that doesnt mean above 50 it will die...

I didn't exacly above 50. I said around 98

[eviltechie]

sorry i mean
above 50c doesnt mean it will get unstable

my chipped athlon still ran very stable with a super orb about 1 year ago

i was fooled by its looks...

bleh...

1.2GHz 266fsb Thunderbird running at 63c is still stable
ran 2 sets of SETI@HOME
longest it has gone was about 3 days straight without reboot