I built a system around an Abit AB9 mobo... well the onboard NIC died so I
pulled the computer into another room to install another card but when I try
to power up the system the fans will spin for a couple of seconds and then
stop... then spin again for a couple of seconds and stop over and over with
nothing else powering up. I removed the other NIC and I still have the
problem. I unplugged all other components and still have the problem. The
onboard Post Code LED gives me a F1 warning and the manual says SoftMenu
Reset, an overclock error, but this system has never been overclocked...
Does anyone have any other ideas?

The system specs are as follows and the system is less than 8 months old:

ABIT AB9
ANTEC SLK3800B 400W POWER SUPPLY
NVIDIA GFORCE 6800GT
KINGSTON 1GB DDR2 533
INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6300 1.86 GHZ
LITE ON SHW160P6S 16X DVD REWRITABLE DRIVE
WD 160GB 1600YS SATA RAID 16MB 7200RPM
TRENDNET TFMPCIV92A 56K/V92 INTERNAL PCI WINMODEM

"Matt" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsGrSh.30837$B7.17135@bigfe9...
>I built a system around an Abit AB9 mobo... well the onboard NIC died so I
>pulled the computer into another room to install another card but when I
>try to power up the system the fans will spin for a couple of seconds and
>then stop... then spin again for a couple of seconds and stop over and over
>with nothing else powering up. I removed the other NIC and I still have the
>problem. I unplugged all other components and still have the problem. The
>onboard Post Code LED gives me a F1 warning and the manual says SoftMenu
>Reset, an overclock error, but this system has never been overclocked...
>Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> The system specs are as follows and the system is less than 8 months old:
>
> ABIT AB9
> ANTEC SLK3800B 400W POWER SUPPLY
> NVIDIA GFORCE 6800GT
> KINGSTON 1GB DDR2 533
> INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6300 1.86 GHZ
> LITE ON SHW160P6S 16X DVD REWRITABLE DRIVE
> WD 160GB 1600YS SATA RAID 16MB 7200RPM
> TRENDNET TFMPCIV92A 56K/V92 INTERNAL PCI WINMODEM
>
>

Sounds like your PSU decided to go south on you. Startup is when the PSU is
under the most strain and is where you usually start seeing problems. My
second guess would be the MB itself, but I would try another known good PSU
first.

Ed

Try clearing the CMOS RAM.

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:01:23 -0400, "Matt"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I built a system around an Abit AB9 mobo... well the onboard NIC died so I
>pulled the computer into another room to install another card but when I try
>to power up the system the fans will spin for a couple of seconds and then
>stop... then spin again for a couple of seconds and stop over and over with
>nothing else powering up. I removed the other NIC and I still have the
>problem. I unplugged all other components and still have the problem. The
>onboard Post Code LED gives me a F1 warning and the manual says SoftMenu
>Reset, an overclock error, but this system has never been overclocked...
>Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
>The system specs are as follows and the system is less than 8 months old:
>
>ABIT AB9
>ANTEC SLK3800B 400W POWER SUPPLY
>NVIDIA GFORCE 6800GT
>KINGSTON 1GB DDR2 533
>INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6300 1.86 GHZ
>LITE ON SHW160P6S 16X DVD REWRITABLE DRIVE
>WD 160GB 1600YS SATA RAID 16MB 7200RPM
>TRENDNET TFMPCIV92A 56K/V92 INTERNAL PCI WINMODEM
>