Startup & Restart Problems on Athlon XP3000+/Abit KD7-G/WinXP

[BradleyJ]

Hi - I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in 10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work. Also, it will not restart when I choose "Restart" from within WinXP.

My system is:

AMD Athlon XP3000+
Abit KD7-G
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700PRO
Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL DDR-DIMM
2 x Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200RPM
NEC CD-brenner IDE 48x/24x/48x
NEC DVD-brenner IDE ND-1300
WinXP Pro

I am using the latest BIOS for the motherboard and I am using the onboard network controller.

Any idea what could be causing these problems?

Thanks.

 

[Leif]

"BradleyJ" skrev i meddelandet

Hi - I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in 10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work. Also, it will not restart when I choose "Restart" from within WinXP.

Strange! I have also experienced the same fault! I don�t know why, so I�m not much of a help though! I have a KD7-Raid with a XP2500+. I�m also having problem with detection of one of my drives....sometimes the startup hangs when detecting drives. Then I have to unplug that drive to make the system start and later I can pulg it in again (during restart)

/Leif

My system is:

AMD Athlon XP3000+
Abit KD7-G
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700PRO
Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL DDR-DIMM
2 x Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200RPM
NEC CD-brenner IDE 48x/24x/48x
NEC DVD-brenner IDE ND-1300
WinXP Pro

I am using the latest BIOS for the motherboard and I am using the ...

 

[MJH]

I have the same problem on my KR7A-RAID board [non-raid setup] with one of my Maxtor 80G drives [6LO80L4] on IDE4 not being recognized sometimes. If I put it on IDE 1 or IDE2 and then back to IDE4 it is recognized again. I've been trying to find time to reload Win98SE in hope of resolving the problem. I also considered a board problem but I don't like to jump to that conclusion yet. I've run all the Maxtor Diag tools and drive passes all tests.

Mike. 30717. 8:52am ET
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"Leif" wrote:

"BradleyJ" skrev i meddelandet

Strange! I have also experienced the same fault! I don�t know why, so I�m not much of a help though! I have a KD7-Raid with a XP2500+. I�m also having problem with detection of one of my drives....sometimes the startup hangs when detecting drives. Then I have to unplug that drive to make the system start and later I can pulg it in again (during restart)

/Leif

 

[Berserker79]

I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in 10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work.

I have this same problem with my KD7 board I press the button, but the system just hangs there with the black screen. Anyway if I press the reset button it starts correctly.

My config:
AMD Athlon XP2500+
Abit KD7 (bios version CY)
Chaintech video card with GeForce4 MX440 GPU
1 x 512 Mb DDR333
HD Quantum fireball AS+ 20Gb 7200rpm
Waitec Shuttle
Win2k with sp3

BTW I read somewhere on the net of compatibility issues between the KD7 series boards and ATI9700 cards which can account for this problem, but I don't have an ATI card...

 

[Lee (3)]

Just a guess but it may be a PSU issue, what wattage rating is the PSU you are using?

On 17 Jul 2003 00:56:53 -0700, (BradleyJ) had the
will to write:

Hi - I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in 10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work. Also, it will not restart when I choose "Restart" from within WinXP.

My system is:

AMD Athlon XP3000+
Abit KD7-G
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700PRO
Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL DDR-DIMM
2 x Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200RPM
...

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Lee

 

[Doug G.]

In article ,
says...

Hi - I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in 10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work. Also, it will not restart when I choose "Restart" from within WinXP.

My system is:

AMD Athlon XP3000+
Abit KD7-G
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700PRO
Corsair TWINX1024-3200LL DDR-DIMM
2 x Western Digital Caviar 120GB IDE 7200RPM ...

What power supply do you have? Have you tried a different one?

Doug

 

[- HAL9000]

Have you made sure your hard disk master / slave jumper(s) is(are) correct?

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.attbi.com/~hal-9000/

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:40:16 GMT, "Leif"
wrote:

"BradleyJ" skrev i meddelandet

Hi - I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in 10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work. Also, it will not restart when I choose "Restart" from within WinXP.

Strange! I have also experienced the same fault! I don�t know why, so I�m not much of a help though! I have a KD7-Raid with a XP2500+. I�m also having problem with detection of one of my drives....sometimes the startup hangs when detecting drives. Then I have to unplug that drive to ...

 

[BradleyJ]

Hmmm....I didn't imagine it could be the power supply. I have the 360 watt power supply that came with my Chieftec tower...

Do you really think the power supply could be the problem? It powers up properly otherwise and I never seem to have any power related problems when it is running properly...?

/Bradley.

Doug G. wrote:

In article ,
says...
Hi - I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in
10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black
screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work. Also,
it will not restart when I choose "Restart" from within WinXP.

My system is:

AMD Athlon XP3000+
Abit KD7-G
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700PRO
...

 

[BradleyJ]

Hi - I am using the 360 watt PSU that came with my Chieftec tower...

Lee wrote:

Just a guess but it may be a PSU issue, what wattage rating is the PSU you are using?

On 17 Jul 2003 00:56:53 -0700, (BradleyJ) had the
will to write:

Hi - I am having startup/restart problems with my PC. Sometimes (1 in 10?) the PC does not start when I power on...it just hangs on a black screen and I have to power down and up again to get it to work. Also, it will not restart when I choose "Restart" from within WinXP.

My system is:
...

 

[Doug G.]

In article ,
says...

Hmmm....I didn't imagine it could be the power supply. I have the 360 watt power supply that came with my Chieftec tower...

Do you really think the power supply could be the problem? It powers up properly otherwise and I never seem to have any power related problems when it is running properly...?

/Bradley.

It's not uncommon at all for a weak, or bad power supply to cause the exact same symptoms you are describing.

Something else that is know to cause the same problem would be blown caps on the board, but I haven't seen any reports of bad caps on the KD7 series boards. You may want to check the caps for any that are domed on top and or leaking any brown substance.

I think it's more likely a power supply problem, but then I can't say for sure. The power supply is where I would start with the process of elimination for such a problem.

Doug

 

[Leif]

"- HAL9000" skrev i meddelandet

Have you made sure your hard disk master / slave jumper(s) is(are) correct?

Yep! Checked, checked and checked again!
Diagnostic tools tells me its no problem with the drive! I think its a bios question! I have problem with my raid 0 configuration too. I don�t get the speed I expect to get....I hope Abit releases a new bios soon with the new Highpoint 2.34 drivers!

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.attbi.com/~hal-9000/

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:40:16 GMT, "Leif"
wrote:

"BradleyJ" skrev i meddelandet

... the startup hangs when detecting drives. Then I have to unplug that drive to make the system start and later I can pulg it in again (during restart)

/Leif

My system is:

AMD Athlon XP3000+
Abit KD7-G
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700PRO
...