A7V600X boot failure

[Stan]

A7V600X, Antec SX630II, AMD 2500+, 512Mb Crucial DDRAM.

This system had been booting up fine for 2 months. Starting yesterday
pressing the power switch would turn on the system for about 2 seconds; it
would then shut itself off. Eventually the system could be started and
would open up the Advanced Menu in the BIOS with the message "During the
last boot-up your system hung for an improper CPU speed setting. Your
system is now working in safe mode. To optimize the system performance and
reliability, make sure the CPU speed conforms to the specifications of your
CPU."

However, the menu shows the CPU speed as 1833, which is correct. Anyone
have any idea what is really the problem?

 

[Gareth Jones]

This system had been booting up fine for 2 months. Starting yesterday
pressing the power switch would turn on the system for about 2 seconds; it
would then shut itself off. Eventually the system could be started and
would open up the Advanced Menu in the BIOS with the message "During the
last boot-up your system hung for an improper CPU speed setting. Your
system is now working in safe mode. To optimize the system performance and
reliability, make sure the CPU speed conforms to the specifications of your
CPU."

This message might not mean anything as it just automatically does this
if it detects an incomplete bootup (in case you were overclocking and
chose settings that wouldn't work - saves resetting the BIOS values)

I guess if it has been working fine, I WOULD power off and jumper the
battery to reset all the settings, then unplug and re-seat the power
supply connectors, RAM, graphics card then CPU.
If this doesn't work, I'm afraid its trial and error time through
swapping stuff with known good parts.
Might be worth taking everything out and running it on a bench in case
you have any shorts on the case??
And don't assume the power supply is ok!
Bloody Antec......
;-)


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[Stan]

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I guess if it has been working fine, I WOULD power off and jumper the
battery to reset all the settings, then unplug and re-seat the power
supply connectors, RAM, graphics card then CPU.
If this doesn't work, I'm afraid its trial and error time through
swapping stuff with known good parts.
Might be worth taking everything out and running it on a bench in case
you have any shorts on the case??
And don't assume the power supply is ok!
Bloody Antec......
;-)

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll give them a try.

Stan