WEIRD AMD BEHAVIOUR

[6wZa9]

Ive never built an AMD b4, i have a 2000+ and an asus a7v8x board. When i turn it on, it turns off for 1 second and then back on.
Seems to work fine apart from that.

Anyone know the cause or have any advice?

much appreciated

 

[Crowley16]

turns off for 1 sec?

are you sure it's not just the screen refreshing or something?

I've never heard of anything like this before...

 

[6wZa9]

Its definately the computer..

The cpu fan starts.. hear first beep, fan slows down, stops, and pretty much as soon as it stops, starts again, beeps and continues..

 

[paparazi]

6wZa9
When fans stop even for a couple of seconds it's worrying.
As you know without the fan an AMD won't last for more than 10/15 seconds and without a heatsink attached less than 5! (I had an ECS K7S5A based PC in for repair last week with a dead CPU, so I replaced his old XP1.8 for an XP2.0+ and started a clean install of XP, it was 10 minutes into the installation and the fan suddenly stopped, it took me by suprise and by the time I realised I yanked out the power cord, too late!!! that was maybe 10 seconds max (turned out to be the motherboard)
If I had to take a guess I would say you have a motherboard or power supply fault.
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[6wZa9]

I see, but it still runs fine regardless, ive just finished a 2003 server install and its been on a good hour after that, im keeping an eye on the fan..

 

[rotaman]

Maybe you've got a memory problem as well, or a bios issue, i mean there are a multitude of things it could be.. Maybe your power supply is dying as well. I would try different components 1 by 1 in order to figure out which component is not working properly. Keep us posted

 

[Lemon13]

it might be that the starting current is to much for your psu (maybe a bad capacitator). check mobo/psu.
try a simple config (hd/grafik/cpu/ram).

 

[micker377]

How big is the power supply? Unplug the CD Rom(s) and pull any cards not needed. See if you have the same problem.