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Title: PC motherboard issue
Post by: TheMagicM on August 12, 2005, 06:58:06 PM

I've got a weird problem... I installed a motherboard w/a Athlon XP 2000 cpu, works great, boots into windows just fine.  When I power it down it powers down but a few seconds later its as if its getting zapped by current and tries to power up and does eventually.  I found out that if I unplug the mouse from the ps/2 port it no longer does that.. I've dug through the bios and there are no power-on settings for ps/2 mouse activity.  Motherboard is a k7ncr18g-pro.

Title: Re: PC motherboard issue
Post by: leofoe on August 12, 2005, 07:41:23 PM

I once had this after installing an Asus P5AD2. It turned out to be the settings of the network adapter. Default it was set to wake up on LAN. So as soon there was network-activity the computer booted.

Title: Re: PC motherboard issue
Post by: adolescent on August 12, 2005, 08:17:21 PM

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leofoe wrote:
I once had this after installing an Asus P5AD2. It turned out to be the settings of the network adapter. Default it was set to wake up on LAN. So as soon there was network-activity the computer booted.

That't not how WOL works.  WOL only wakes up a computer when a special packet is recieved, not with any random network activity.  

I'd suggest that there might be a power on from keyboard/mouse option in the BIOS that is causing the problem.

Title: Re: PC motherboard issue
Post by: TheMagicM on August 12, 2005, 08:18:44 PM

I'll look through the BIOS settings again to see if there is a power on for keyboard/mouse..

Title: Re: PC motherboard issue
Post by: Doobrey on August 12, 2005, 08:49:01 PM

Stupid question, but have you checked that your board has the latest BIOS?
Might be a known issue that's been fixed.

Also, is your mouse a bog standard wired one, or a cordless?

Title: Re: PC motherboard issue
Post by: Tahoe on August 12, 2005, 08:49:32 PM

Try removing the 5V PS/2 jumper... (if there is one) (keeps 5V power on your PS/2 ports for activating Power-On by KB/Mouse)

BTW; Here is the info on the board; including BIOS updates:
http://www.leadtek.com.tw/eng/support/download.asp?downlineid=40&downline=WinFast%20K7nCR18G(Pro)/GM

Title: Re: PC motherboard issue
Post by: TheMagicM on August 12, 2005, 10:48:40 PM

I'll look it up..as for the bios updates, it doesnt seem as any of those solves the issue I'm having.. regardless, I'll update the bios to the latest.

Title: Re: PC motherboard issue
Post by: TheMagicM on August 13, 2005, 04:08:42 PM

ok, I looked up the BIOS updates, downloaded one and installed it...then recieved a Checksum error when rebooting.  I put the original BIOS back.   The mouse is a optical mouse and shows that it uses 5v power..I put the old ps/2 mouse back and it never powers back up on its own..  Well...I wouldnt say never..It did power back up overnight but it takes quite some time.  So I'm getting closer to solving this.