P4P800-SE restarting on cold boot

HerbSurgeon · 11-02-2004, 08:16 AM

Hi all,

I built a system using a asus p4p800-se mobo, a p4 3.0 ghz 800fsb CPU, 2x 512 sticks of kingston 400ddr ram and a xfx geforce 6800gt 256 meg gfx card. My system worked fine for at least a few months until recently - now if i leave my pc off for a while when turn it back on it seems to begin to start up but then powers off after 1 or 2 seconds ..no beeps no nothing, upon restarting the machine - it boots fine but does display a msg saying that the overclocking settings didnt work - i havent overclocked anything at all i think most setting are default in the bios. I changed my psu when this first began to happen from a 350 watt to a 500 watt Q-tec (i think) but the problem still continues. Once i have got the machine to boot it works fine and doesnt fall over at all (plays high end games) but as i say once i turn it off for any length of time i get this problem. Can anyone help me or give me any kind of advise to how i may find the cause of this ?

thanks a lot

Herb :)

**jcline** · 11-02-2004, 09:07 AM

Sounds like a possible vid card issue...what version are your vid drivers?

HerbSurgeon · 11-02-2004, 10:40 AM

I have tried to use the drivers that were boxed with the card and the newest ones on the nvidia site

**jcline** · 11-02-2004, 10:42 AM

What is the driver version?

HerbSurgeon · 11-02-2004, 11:21 AM

6.14 is the the current version i am using. i have just noticed that after a cold boot and i get the overclocking error , in the bios my cpu fan speed shows up as red and reads at 1757rpm ?? dunno if that helps at all.

11-02-2004, 08:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
HerbSurgeon Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 14 OS: xp	P4P800-SE restarting on cold boot Hi all, I built a system using a asus p4p800-se mobo, a p4 3.0 ghz 800fsb CPU, 2x 512 sticks of kingston 400ddr ram and a xfx geforce 6800gt 256 meg gfx card. My system worked fine for at least a few months until recently - now if i leave my pc off for a while when turn it back on it seems to begin to start up but then powers off after 1 or 2 seconds ..no beeps no nothing, upon restarting the machine - it boots fine but does display a msg saying that the overclocking settings didnt work - i havent overclocked anything at all i think most setting are default in the bios. I changed my psu when this first began to happen from a 350 watt to a 500 watt Q-tec (i think) but the problem still continues. Once i have got the machine to boot it works fine and doesnt fall over at all (plays high end games) but as i say once i turn it off for any length of time i get this problem. Can anyone help me or give me any kind of advise to how i may find the cause of this ? thanks a lot Herb :)

11-02-2004, 09:07 AM	#2 (permalink)
jcline Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: MI Posts: 856 OS: Windows XP Pro	Sounds like a possible vid card issue...what version are your vid drivers?

11-02-2004, 10:40 AM	#3 (permalink)
HerbSurgeon Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 14 OS: xp	I have tried to use the drivers that were boxed with the card and the newest ones on the nvidia site

11-02-2004, 10:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
jcline Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: MI Posts: 856 OS: Windows XP Pro	What is the driver version?

11-02-2004, 11:21 AM	#5 (permalink)
HerbSurgeon Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 14 OS: xp	6.14 is the the current version i am using. i have just noticed that after a cold boot and i get the overclocking error , in the bios my cpu fan speed shows up as red and reads at 1757rpm ?? dunno if that helps at all.