Power on Problem

[brjanice]

I have a problem powering on my system after I do a shutdown from windows 98. I am running Win 98 first addition. The sequence of events is. 1. I shut down the system through win 98. 2. The system shuts down and powers off. 3. When I power on, the hard disk light lights briefly as does the cd-rom, then it stalls. The screen is completely empty. 4. If I press the reset button three to four times successively the system boots up normally. What the heck could be the problem here? I have a shuttle hot 597 MB with and AMD K6-2 350MHZ processor. The bios is award with a via mvp chipset. I just built the system from all new parts. I have to have this thing fixed to give as a christmas present for my nephew!! Help!! Is there a way to reset the MB completely so I can just start over for scratch? Is that the way to go?

[Pantion]

The VIA chipset again... try to flash your BIOS to see it fix your problem.

Search for your BIOS file and utilities here:
www.ping.be/bios/ (http://www.ping.be/bios/)

And a small guide on how-to-flash your award BIOS:
http://www.tekram.com:8080/online_1.nsf/2f335c9c92dfb170882565ac0052c414/84bcc88485dd982b882565bf002b0854?OpenDocument

[lost1]

Here's what I'd do:
Take out all peripheral cards (sound, modem, network, SCSI, etc.)
Disconnect power supply from motherboard and clear the CMOS with the CLEAR CMOS jumper.
Remove and reinstall CPU and RAM. Make SURE the RAM is seated- sometimes you really have to lean on it to get it to seat properly.
Reinstall sound and video cards, leaving out all other cards. Make sure cards are seated all the way- like RAM, they can be a bear sometimes.
Remove and reinstall all power and IDE cables on all components.
Restart the system. If it works fine, then reinstall any other components/cards one at a time. That way is something is bad, you'll find it on restart.
If this doesn't work, you may have to test each component (RAM, vid card, etc) in another system to zero in on the defective component.
Hope this helps.
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