kinda weird. what was wrong?

[Beeblequix]

OS: XP w SP1
mobo: MSI 865PE Neo-2pfs Platinum
mem: 2x256 PC3700 Kingston HyperX @ PC3200 ; by spd enabled, auto fsb setting (400)
cpu: P4 2.8C HT enabled
hdd: WD 800jb pata
burner: Lite-On 52x32x52
case: Aspire X Dreamer II
video: Sapphire Radeon 9800pro oem 128M

So we finished playing a few rounds of UT04 demo. I decided to put the thing in Sleep(?) mode. When I hit the sleep key the computer shut off. Then it tried turning itself on again. It tried reading a game CD in the drive (the light flashed 5 times), then read the hdd once. Then it turned itself off, started back up and repeated the exact same thing as above. Over and over.

I thought it may be memory related, so I pulled out one of the DIMMs. When I did this it started up and I was able to get to the BIOS. I replaced the one DIMM in the same slot and it did the above restart-shut-off-restart procedure. I moved my dual channel DIMMs to the other slots, and now it works fine. At least I hope.

So wtf happened here? Is my mobo going bad? Was it just a fluke of the DIMMs working their way loose? Ideas please. Thx.

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[Stuart100]

Try checking where your power button plugs into the mobo and make sure you have all those settings correct. You can get a guide from MSI site I believe and the little plugs should be marked. Then I would make sure the bios is updated.

Stu

[Beeblequix]

I'll look into updating my BIOS. The power plugs haven't changed since February when I built it, but I'll replug them anyway.

[rmanet]

you'd be surprised sometime how easily RAM gets dislodged, my guess is that was your problem - I know someone with a low profile Dell who has to reseat his RAM at least once a week.....