Power and Reset buttons are confused

[Jessica]

It used to happen once ina while;
to boot up..i'd have to hit the power button (wouldnt do anything) and then the Reset button would boot it up.


But for some reason *everytime* i have to do that if i turned the computer off.
It gets annoying.

I dont know why either......it just started freaking out and doing that all the time.

i unplugged it for a while (which killed my CMOS/BIOS settings-battery dead).
It didnt do anything.

And then I tried unplugging the power from the motherboard for a while.....did the same thing.


anyone?

this is it;
ECS K7S5A
AMD XP 1600+
512MB DDR

[nnuxx]

i would go for a bad DDR... maybe...
or try it with another HDD if u can... do u use SCSI or IDE?

[Alpine]

humm .. maybe a HDD trouble ( bad installation ) or a memory trouble !!

[Jessica]

too much work.

i'll live.

[SlickVic78]

The CMOS shouldn't reset if you just umplugged it from the wall... Did you either pop out the battery on the mobo, or usually there is a jumper setting on the mobo that will allow you to reset CMOS settings...

Is the PSU in that system the original one that came with the case? Could be a potential power problem...

-SlickVic78