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775dual-VSTA cold boots fine but restart hangs
Hi,
When my sons elderly Compaq died just before Xmas I built a new PC based on a 775dual-VSTA. I reused the old AGP graphics card (5200) and the old IDE disks. My plan is to upgrade piece by piece. CPU is a Pentium 4 3Ghz. XP SP2. All has been working fine, and is working OK. However I installed some XP updates and I noticed the PC didn't reboot after a restart. I don't see the the nVidia 5200 banner (normally first thing) or the BIOS. I have a green light on power and a solid red light on the disk access. The CDROM light does flicker, but I don't appear to be able to boot of a bootable CD image. In desperation I disconnected everything and took a look inside. All looked fine. Reconnected and powered up, and booted perfectly (though BIOS recognised an unsuccessful boot had previously occured). I can reproduce this. If I restart the PC appears to hang prior to the graphics card declaring itself. However if I start from cold (power off at the wall) it starts fine. I'm pretty sure that it used to restart OK. It's has autoupdate for XP running, and has the latest nvidia drivers and directX. I have not updated the BIOS, as I'm reluctant to and don't have a floppy drive so it looks a bit complex Any suggestions. I guess it could be the wires from the motherboard to the frontpanel power/reset buttons ? ANy suggestions gratefully received |
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775dual-VSTA cold boots fine but restart hangs
"jives11" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, When my sons elderly Compaq died just before Xmas I built a new PC based on a 775dual-VSTA. I reused the old AGP graphics card (5200) and the old IDE disks. My plan is to upgrade piece by piece. CPU is a Pentium 4 3Ghz. XP SP2. All has been working fine, and is working OK. However I installed some XP updates and I noticed the PC didn't reboot after a restart. I don't see the the nVidia 5200 banner (normally first thing) or the BIOS. I have a green light on power and a solid red light on the disk access. The CDROM light does flicker, but I don't appear to be able to boot of a bootable CD image. In desperation I disconnected everything and took a look inside. All looked fine. Reconnected and powered up, and booted perfectly (though BIOS recognised an unsuccessful boot had previously occured). I can reproduce this. If I restart the PC appears to hang prior to the graphics card declaring itself. However if I start from cold (power off at the wall) it starts fine. I'm pretty sure that it used to restart OK. It's has autoupdate for XP running, and has the latest nvidia drivers and directX. I have not updated the BIOS, as I'm reluctant to and don't have a floppy drive so it looks a bit complex Any suggestions. I guess it could be the wires from the motherboard to the frontpanel power/reset buttons ? ANy suggestions gratefully received As your PC started having problems after an XP update, I suggest that you use your XP's "System Restore" function. This is an easily forgotten resource, and should confirm whether you have a software or hardware problem. Updating the Bios (latest one is 2.40) is very easy on that board; get yourself a USB floppy drive. I can't suggest anything else right now. A question for you: Is your onboard audio working? Did you have any problems? I can't get mine to work: I get "No audio device" in the Control Panel's "Sounds and Audio Devices". I've installed all the drivers from the supplied CD, and downloaded and installed the latest Realtek drivers. Sylvain. |
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775dual-VSTA cold boots fine but restart hangs
On 26 Feb, 10:55, "Sylvain VAN DER WALDE"
wrote: "jives11" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, When my sons elderly Compaq died just before Xmas I built a new PC based on a 775dual-VSTA. I reused the old AGP graphics card (5200) and the old IDE disks. My plan is to upgrade piece by piece. CPU is a Pentium 4 3Ghz. XP SP2. All has been working fine, and is working OK. However I installed some XP updates and I noticed the PC didn't reboot after a restart. I don't see the the nVidia 5200 banner (normally first thing) or the BIOS. I have a green light on power and a solid red light on the disk access. The CDROM light does flicker, but I don't appear to be able to boot of a bootable CD image. In desperation I disconnected everything and took a look inside. All looked fine. Reconnected and powered up, and booted perfectly (though BIOS recognised an unsuccessful boot had previously occured). I can reproduce this. If I restart the PC appears to hang prior to the graphics card declaring itself. However if I start from cold (power off at the wall) it starts fine. I'm pretty sure that it used to restart OK. It's has autoupdate for XP running, and has the latest nvidia drivers and directX. I have not updated the BIOS, as I'm reluctant to and don't have a floppy drive so it looks a bit complex Any suggestions. I guess it could be the wires from the motherboard to the frontpanel power/reset buttons ? ANy suggestions gratefully received As your PC started having problems after an XP update, I suggest that you use your XP's "System Restore" function. This is an easily forgotten resource, and should confirm whether you have a software or hardware problem. Updating the Bios (latest one is 2.40) is very easy on that board; get yourself a USB floppy drive. I can't suggest anything else right now. A question for you: Is your onboard audio working? Did you have any problems? I can't get mine to work: I get "No audio device" in the Control Panel's "Sounds and Audio Devices". I've installed all the drivers from the supplied CD, and downloaded and installed the latest Realtek drivers. Sylvain. Thanks Sylvian, my problem is I'm not sure which update may have contributed. I have a hunch it might be connected with a USB keyboard I recently added. It's one with a glowing blue backlight and sometimes the light appears to stay on. I also noticed this with the Optical mouse via the PS2 connecter, though when I use a USB mouse, the light goes off. I have not had any problems with audio. Are you using the rear connections or via front panel break out cables |
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775dual-VSTA cold boots fine but restart hangs
"jives11" wrote in message ups.com... On 26 Feb, 10:55, "Sylvain VAN DER WALDE" wrote: "jives11" wrote in message ups.com... Hi, When my sons elderly Compaq died just before Xmas I built a new PC based on a 775dual-VSTA. I reused the old AGP graphics card (5200) and the old IDE disks. My plan is to upgrade piece by piece. CPU is a Pentium 4 3Ghz. XP SP2. All has been working fine, and is working OK. However I installed some XP updates and I noticed the PC didn't reboot after a restart. I don't see the the nVidia 5200 banner (normally first thing) or the BIOS. I have a green light on power and a solid red light on the disk access. The CDROM light does flicker, but I don't appear to be able to boot of a bootable CD image. In desperation I disconnected everything and took a look inside. All looked fine. Reconnected and powered up, and booted perfectly (though BIOS recognised an unsuccessful boot had previously occured). I can reproduce this. If I restart the PC appears to hang prior to the graphics card declaring itself. However if I start from cold (power off at the wall) it starts fine. I'm pretty sure that it used to restart OK. It's has autoupdate for XP running, and has the latest nvidia drivers and directX. I have not updated the BIOS, as I'm reluctant to and don't have a floppy drive so it looks a bit complex Any suggestions. I guess it could be the wires from the motherboard to the frontpanel power/reset buttons ? ANy suggestions gratefully received As your PC started having problems after an XP update, I suggest that you use your XP's "System Restore" function. This is an easily forgotten resource, and should confirm whether you have a software or hardware problem. Updating the Bios (latest one is 2.40) is very easy on that board; get yourself a USB floppy drive. I can't suggest anything else right now. A question for you: Is your onboard audio working? Did you have any problems? I can't get mine to work: I get "No audio device" in the Control Panel's "Sounds and Audio Devices". I've installed all the drivers from the supplied CD, and downloaded and installed the latest Realtek drivers. Sylvain. Thanks Sylvian, my problem is I'm not sure which update may have contributed. I have a hunch it might be connected with a USB keyboard I recently added. It's one with a glowing blue backlight and sometimes the light appears to stay on. I also noticed this with the Optical mouse via the PS2 connecter, though when I use a USB mouse, the light goes off. I'm afraid that I can't think of anything to suggest. This newsgroup is not usually helpful with Asrock motherboards. You could try the two "homebuilt." newsgroups. I have not had any problems with audio. Are you using the rear connections or via front panel break out cables I'm using the rear connection. In answer to your email, I didn't know about the Bios audio settings in "Advanced", but did find out later on. It still made no difference. I did have a PCI audio card which I fitted, and the audio is OK now. Sylvain. |
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775dual-VSTA cold boots fine but restart hangs
On 27 Feb, 10:00, "Sylvain VAN DER WALDE"
wrote: "jives11" wrote in message ups.com... On 26 Feb, 10:55, "Sylvain VAN DER WALDE" wrote: "jives11" wrote in message roups.com... Hi, When my sons elderly Compaq died just before Xmas I built a new PC based on a 775dual-VSTA. I reused the old AGP graphics card (5200) and the old IDE disks. My plan is to upgrade piece by piece. CPU is a Pentium 4 3Ghz. XP SP2. All has been working fine, and is working OK. However I installed some XP updates and I noticed the PC didn't reboot after a restart. I don't see the the nVidia 5200 banner (normally first thing) or the BIOS. I have a green light on power and a solid red light on the disk access. The CDROM light does flicker, but I don't appear to be able to boot of a bootable CD image. In desperation I disconnected everything and took a look inside. All looked fine. Reconnected and powered up, and booted perfectly (though BIOS recognised an unsuccessful boot had previously occured). I can reproduce this. If I restart the PC appears to hang prior to the graphics card declaring itself. However if I start from cold (power off at the wall) it starts fine. I'm pretty sure that it used to restart OK. It's has autoupdate for XP running, and has the latest nvidia drivers and directX. I have not updated the BIOS, as I'm reluctant to and don't have a floppy drive so it looks a bit complex Any suggestions. I guess it could be the wires from the motherboard to the frontpanel power/reset buttons ? ANy suggestions gratefully received As your PC started having problems after an XP update, I suggest that you use your XP's "System Restore" function. This is an easily forgotten resource, and should confirm whether you have a software or hardware problem. Updating the Bios (latest one is 2.40) is very easy on that board; get yourself a USB floppy drive. I can't suggest anything else right now. A question for you: Is your onboard audio working? Did you have any problems? I can't get mine to work: I get "No audio device" in the Control Panel's "Sounds and Audio Devices". I've installed all the drivers from the supplied CD, and downloaded and installed the latest Realtek drivers. Sylvain. Thanks Sylvian, my problem is I'm not sure which update may have contributed. I have a hunch it might be connected with a USB keyboard I recently added. It's one with a glowing blue backlight and sometimes the light appears to stay on. I also noticed this with the Optical mouse via the PS2 connecter, though when I use a USB mouse, the light goes off. I'm afraid that I can't think of anything to suggest. This newsgroup is not usually helpful with Asrock motherboards. You could try the two "homebuilt." newsgroups. I have not had any problems with audio. Are you using the rear connections or via front panel break out cables I'm using the rear connection. In answer to your email, I didn't know about the Bios audio settings in "Advanced", but did find out later on. It still made no difference. I did have a PCI audio card which I fitted, and the audio is OK now. Sylvain. Thanks again, I reposted in the homebuilt group and had some very good advice. I also ended up realising I'd been an idiot - there is a windows native BIOS upgrade tool. So , I upgraded the BIOS AND rest to default settings. Booted fine and reboots fine. I did notice on reboot that it seemed to rediscover the onboard sound devices, and initially I was getting some popup errors when I tried to use some of the sound devices control tools. However this seemed to be services that had started before the device was rediscovered. another reboot sorted it and all is ok. is it worth resetting defaults in the BIOS ? |
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