odd power up behavior

[Phil Nicholls]

I recently upgraded to an athlon 64 system selecting the Asrock 939
Dual SATAII motherboard. The monitor, speakers and case power are all
connected to a power consol type surge protector that sits under my
monitor. When I turn on the "master switch" I still have to power on
the system. However, since the upgrade when I through the master
switch there is a brief spinning of all the case fans.

Now I could solve this problem by just connecting the case power
supply to a different surge protector but I'm wondering if this is a
sympton of something larger that may occur after the motherboard
warrenty has expired.

This didn't happen on my Abit NF-7.

I have searched but cannot find a reference to this kind of problem.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Conor]

I recently upgraded to an athlon 64 system selecting the Asrock 939
Dual SATAII motherboard. The monitor, speakers and case power are all
connected to a power consol type surge protector that sits under my
monitor. When I turn on the "master switch" I still have to power on
the system. However, since the upgrade when I through the master
switch there is a brief spinning of all the case fans.

Now I could solve this problem by just connecting the case power
supply to a different surge protector but I'm wondering if this is a
sympton of something larger that may occur after the motherboard
warrenty has expired.

This didn't happen on my Abit NF-7.

I have searched but cannot find a reference to this kind of problem.

It's nothing to worry about. THey all do it.


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[Michael Hawes]

It's nothing to worry about. THey all do it.


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The BIOS will have a setting for what to do when power restored, you need to
set it to power up, then it will boot when you throw the master switch.
Mike.

 

[Phil Nicholls]

It's nothing to worry about. THey all do it.

Thank you. I just got an email from Asrock tech support confirming
that this is normal. I've just never seen it happen before.