Shuttle wont restart

[moxy]

I built an A64 Shuttle recently & installed XP fine .

But after turning it off it wont start again unless I clear the CMOS.

Then its fine until I turn it off again.

The Mobo , HD , battery , Graphics card , RAM have already been changed .


Any ideas ?

 

[Tedster]

is the motherboard protected from grounding? Do you have it on insulated standoffs from the case?

 

[N3051M]

try checking the cmos battery again with a multimeter..

check the mobo for popped/leaked caps or physical damage..

try going to basics -> mobo, cpu, power, hdd, sound & video. if it works ok then go plug in each component one by one untill you find the problem

 

[moxy]

This is my second mobo and it came preinstalled in the shuttle mini-case.

I´ve got another PC so I´ve already checked the HD, RAM, Video Card and they´re ok too.

I think it´s got to be the PSU or the processor.

My second PC is a pentium so I can´t test the Athlon chip or the 250W shuttle PSU.

Any ideas how to check are there any good utilites around.

Thanks

 

[kirock]

This is the second mobo? Maybe this product is just a piece of shhhhhh.
Something is corrupting the BIOS settings which can only be a weird mobo defect. The only thing I can suggest is to enter your BIOS (usually DEL on start-up) and set everything to fail safe and remember to save settings. Further to that when you do a CMOS restore and enter the BIOS, make a note of anything unusual in the settings. Something that is set to manual which would be defaulted to Auto and visa versa.

 

[moxy]

I´ve tried the fail safe Bios settings a few times with the same result.

It´s gonna be tricky to go through each Bios setting but I´ll give it a go.

Thanks again,

 

[Tedster]

is the RAM compatible with the motherboard. RTFM.

 

[moxy]

Of course the RAM is compatible.

RTFM ????



Do me a favor and keep your advice to yourself little "Tedster"