I just recently got a Asus A7V mobo and a t-bird 850MHz cpu. Everything is peachy, except when I first start it up I notice that when I turn the power on it makes the sound like its starting up for about 5 seconds. Then it goes idle and I push the power button normally. "Strange" I thought to myself, my other mobo never did that before. And now this happens everytime I turn the power stip on.
Ok so a couple days ago windows98se was doing some crashing and unusual stuff, so I decide its time to reinstall windows again (reinstall windows not reformat hd). So I start up with the floppy disk. It loads the drivers and such, and when I get the prompt I type in "setup.exe". ScanDisk runs, I have two harddrives C and D and they both check out. When it gets to my dvd-cdrom drive, E, it does some scanning then mysteriously my computer goes idle and the screen goes black. Just like when I turned the power on before, the hard drives are no longer spinning and it is silent. Except one thing has changed, the power button and reset button dont seem to work. "Whats going on?" I ask as I turn my power strip on and off and start the computer back up. I repeatedly go through this process only to arrive at the same result.
So I decide to put it off and try it the next day. Later that day while I'm playing UT and something crashes my computer. I must have had some other programs open, so I hit the reset button. I have Nortan System Works' scan disk replacing the Microsoft one when it restarts. So it goes into the Nortan scan disk. When it's scanning C the same thing happens, the whole computer apparently shuts itself down in the middle of scandisk. "Bah"
So the next day I try again to reinstall windows. I decided that I'd try to just use my C and E drives since thats all I needed, and I unplugged the other two. It gets through the driver loading and I type "setup.exe", blah, blah, blah. It goes into scanning C and midway through it shuts down the same way, computer off, moniter off. I decided to give it one more go. This time when its loading the drivers it shuts down. And here I sit in front of the screen, unable to reinstall windows typing this message.
Can someone please help me?
If it helps I have:
Voodoo3 2000
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Linksys Etherfast 10/100
Maxtor 20GB
Maxtor 10GB
Mat****a DVD-rom sr-8583
Creative CD-RW 8432E
Thanks
Ok so a couple days ago windows98se was doing some crashing and unusual stuff, so I decide its time to reinstall windows again (reinstall windows not reformat hd). So I start up with the floppy disk. It loads the drivers and such, and when I get the prompt I type in "setup.exe". ScanDisk runs, I have two harddrives C and D and they both check out. When it gets to my dvd-cdrom drive, E, it does some scanning then mysteriously my computer goes idle and the screen goes black. Just like when I turned the power on before, the hard drives are no longer spinning and it is silent. Except one thing has changed, the power button and reset button dont seem to work. "Whats going on?" I ask as I turn my power strip on and off and start the computer back up. I repeatedly go through this process only to arrive at the same result.
So I decide to put it off and try it the next day. Later that day while I'm playing UT and something crashes my computer. I must have had some other programs open, so I hit the reset button. I have Nortan System Works' scan disk replacing the Microsoft one when it restarts. So it goes into the Nortan scan disk. When it's scanning C the same thing happens, the whole computer apparently shuts itself down in the middle of scandisk. "Bah"
So the next day I try again to reinstall windows. I decided that I'd try to just use my C and E drives since thats all I needed, and I unplugged the other two. It gets through the driver loading and I type "setup.exe", blah, blah, blah. It goes into scanning C and midway through it shuts down the same way, computer off, moniter off. I decided to give it one more go. This time when its loading the drivers it shuts down. And here I sit in front of the screen, unable to reinstall windows typing this message.
Can someone please help me?
If it helps I have:
Voodoo3 2000
Sound Blaster Live! Value
Linksys Etherfast 10/100
Maxtor 20GB
Maxtor 10GB
Mat****a DVD-rom sr-8583
Creative CD-RW 8432E
Thanks
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