Hi,

My problem is that when I turn on my computer, the windows 2000 screen does not come up, then I reset the computer manually and everything works fine. The only thing I did different is that I flashed my computer BIOS to the latest version. I am using an ECS K7S5A motherboard and I have 256 MB of Samsung PC2100 memory.

Any help appreciated.

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Try and flash your BIOS to version before the latest.

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Hi,

I flashed it before to the latest version and even in Win2K were appearing to all kinds of weird errors, then I realized that I flashed my motherboard with a BIOS version that has no onboard LAN, I flashed it with the correct version and everything works fine now.

Thanks.

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Sweet! I love it when we can help!!

I'll tell you your origonal problem...

The K7S5A has a little cold boot problem. When you first boot the chipset cold it causes problems, and by the time your press restart, the northbridge is warm enough to work correctly.

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Glad we could help! By the way, glad to see you back Uranium

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Glad to be back. Keep in mind my main forums are still NetSmog (http://www.netsmog.net). I'm also a moderator there, so it shall always be my main forums. I suggest anyone else sign up there too. Now enough plugging for me

I bet one of the bios patches upped the voltage on the NB a bit to give it a little heat boost

I have the Same motherboard, before I got it I researched the hell out of it

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Hi,

Thanks for the replies. It appears that my motherboard still has that 'cold boot' problem', as sometimes I have to hit reset for it to boot normally. When I installed my new Athlon XP 1700+ on the motherboard, I accidentally installed the memory backwards, I turned off the computer inmediately, and when I took out the memory it smelled like smoke, could this be the cause of my problem? I have no stability problems, but this 'cold boot' problem have not happened to me before.

Thanks.

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Hi,

To update on my situation, I discovered the real problem, the motherboard won't post unless I set the memory and cpu clock to 100 mhz, it won't post to 133 fsb no matter what I do. I checked this with two different sticks of memory, and the times the computer does post to 133 mhz fsb, it wont restart or even reset.

Thanks.

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