Power Supply or Motherboard?

[RadDad]

I have an issue. My brother sent me a AN35 nForce 2 Ultra board with a XP 3000+ Barton Core proc. This worked flawlessly with his PS and setup. I replaced my board last night with this one. I added one stick of extra ram and had errors( no boot, slow boot, BSOD)
took the ram out and it booted up loaded Windows XP Pro and my drivers. I normally setup a computer in this order. Mainboard, Proc,memory,video,hard drive, cdrom, once these are loaded I add my other pci cards one at a time until the system is fully functional. Well everything was flying had Windows and my mainboard and video drivers loaded in approx 20min. Then I shutdown to add my SB Audigy--> won't boot so I took it out and it still won't boot. Reseated video, cpu, memory unplugged all power except to video and board--. won't boot. The funny thing is all the lights bell whistles and fans run no post. I reset the bios--> post then setup cmos restart no boot. I have a Ultra x-connect PS (known for going out at any moment) but it has worked flawlessly for about 6 months now in my other rig. Any ideas? my system specs are as follows:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
AN35 nForce2 Ultra
BFG 6800GTOC 256 mb AGP
Liteon 52x CDRW
200 gb Maxtor Diamondmax 10 PATA HD
Audigy SB Platinum
NEC 5-port USB 2.0 pci card
Ultra X-connect 500 Watt Green PS
2-120mm fans
1-80mm fan

Thanks. :confused:

[jonnyGURU]

I have an issue. My brother sent me a AN35 nForce 2 Ultra board with a XP 3000+ Barton Core proc. This worked flawlessly with his PS and setup. I replaced my board last night with this one. I added one stick of extra ram and had errors( no boot, slow boot, BSOD)
took the ram out and it booted up loaded Windows XP Pro and my drivers. I normally setup a computer in this order. Mainboard, Proc,memory,video,hard drive, cdrom, once these are loaded I add my other pci cards one at a time until the system is fully functional. Well everything was flying had Windows and my mainboard and video drivers loaded in approx 20min. Then I shutdown to add my SB Audigy--> won't boot so I took it out and it still won't boot. Reseated video, cpu, memory unplugged all power except to video and board--. won't boot. The funny thing is all the lights bell whistles and fans run no post. I reset the bios--> post then setup cmos restart no boot. I have a Ultra x-connect PS (known for going out at any moment) but it has worked flawlessly for about 6 months now in my other rig. Any ideas? my system specs are as follows:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
AN35 nForce2 Ultra
BFG 6800GTOC 256 mb AGP
Liteon 52x CDRW
200 gb Maxtor Diamondmax 10 PATA HD
Audigy SB Platinum
NEC 5-port USB 2.0 pci card
Ultra X-connect 500 Watt Green PS
2-120mm fans
1-80mm fan

Thanks. :confused:

Funny. I would've been suspect of the board with symptoms like that. Especially since IT'S the variable.

You're having warm boot issues while still at POST. Drives have already spun up. So there's actually less load on the PSU than when you cold booted it and went into the BIOS.

But let's entertain your thinking.... OBVIOUS: Do you have another PSU to try?

[RadDad]

I do but didn't have the time last night to try it. I had an issue like this before with a differant nForce board and finally replaced the cpu and all was good, It just seems to me if it was the PS it wouldn't power up. I also have another board to try, so tonight I will be busy.

[jonnyGURU]

That's funny, really. I had a similar situation with my wife's machine and it was the board. PISSED ME OFF because God knows I didn't want to swap the board.

She had a Biostar M7NCG and a 3200+ Barton and it was rock solid. Replaced the Biostar w/ an Asus because Asus boards have the holes where you can mount a water block.

All of the sudden, the PC is picky with RAM, locked up when certain USB devices were accessed, etc. I installed a USB card thinking it was a problem with the controller and the card wasn't detected in the bottom three slots of the board.

THAT was the final straw.

Pulled the Asus, popped in an FIC (would've put the Biostar back in but I sold it. :() and everything was peachy. :rolleyes:

[RadDad]

Well I do have a Biostar M7NGC motherboard that is the one I relaced with this AN35 Shuttle board. I like the shuttle beacuse it was an Ultra board and a full size FF. That is funny. Regardless of what other say I like the Ultra products I did not really think it was the PS but wanted to be sure. I also question if it is a bios setup problem. Seeing as set to default it runs just not at the correct clock speeds. I guess as long as I get it up and running I can go to there site and find what I need in the manual. Thank you.