Powering off Problem

JesterCobblepotJesterCobblepot
edited September 2003 in Hardware
Alright, so I just got all this stuff very recently, and this is the first time im assembling it (although ive assembled many many machines in the past), but this problem is just eluding me.

Here are the specs so far:

ECS K7S5A Motherboard
Athlon XP 2200+ CPU
2x 512mb DDR2100 RAM Chips
ATI Radeon 7500 64mb
400w Power Supply

Thats all thats in the system so far, but when I power the machine up, it powers off within 10 seconds of being on. Ive removed the ram chips to see if it was a memory problem, still does it.

Anyone have ideas?

Comments

  • StalkerStalker
    edited September 2003
    mine used to do that when i fried a processor
  • SwordsmanSwordsman
    edited September 2003
    does the bios show a switch for cpu fan and is your cpu fan one with an rpm lead to the motherboard? On some boards, If the board does not sense a fan on the rpm pins of the fan header, the bios shuts the baord off. Period. If you have a fan with an rpm sensor you can hook it up to the fan header on the board so the board will stay on long enough for you to get into the bios and put the bios switch to disabled.

    That's my thought, although I don't know if the K7S5A has such a switch in the bios. So, if not, I have no idea!!

    Good luck!

    S!
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