Athlon problem?

[Dave2]

My Athlon 600 and Soyo K7AIA motherboard arrived yesterday. When I turn off the computer using the surge protector instead of the power button on the case, next time I turn on my computer using the surge protector it powers up for a 1 second then powers off. On the P3 I would not get any power up at all just by turning on the surge protector. Normally this shouldn't power up at all just by turning on the surge protector. Next thing I do is press the power button on the case and it powers up normally. However if I shut the computer down by pressing the power button on the case then turning off the surge protector this doesn't happen next time I turn it on. On the Pentium 3 that 1 second of power up never happend when I turned on the surge protector even if I turned it off just from the surge protector. Another strange thing is that when I don't have the cpu installed the computer still powers up just by turning on the surge protector and it stays powered up with a blank screen. This is like turning on an AT case with an AT motherboard installed without a CPU. I just want to know why I'm getting a 1 second power-up when I think I shouldn't be getting any power up at all just by turning on the surge protector if I have an ATX motherboard. I'm using the 300W power supply that came with my Enlight 7237 case.

[OuTpaTienT]

hmmmm, sounds to me like your title should be "power supply problem".

[Dave2]

The model number of the power supply is PTP-3018. It's not on AMD's recommended list.

[Dave2]

Today I bought the Antec 300 watt power supply that is on AMD's list but I still get the same problem. I'm taking that power supply back tommorow and keeping my Vextrec power supply. Maybe all Athlon motherboards do this.

[OuTpaTienT]

What's your problem Dave? That's just brilliant logic. ONE motherboard does that, so you say, ALL motherboard do that. Geeeeeesh.

[CMonster]

Did I miss something or is that not the proper way to shut down an ATX system? If you follow shutdown procedure does it now power down the "CPU" automatically?

Mine even shuts down the power when I shutdown in Linux - only BeOS leaves me to turn it off with the switch and I get a similar result if I use the surge protector first instead of the power switch on the front of the case.

[neo_otyugh]

With an ATX all you need to do is click start and shutdown, and then select shutdown, it should powerdown on its own no problem.