🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello,

Since i am getting the bios boot screen i don,t think the problem is
related, but thank you. Also you bring up a good point.  I think i'll try
adding a scsi drive and adapter to boot from.  That may help narrow the
issue for Tech Support.

For your  problem I would try in order;

Reseat everything, including memory, cpu, cards, cables(including power),
etc.
Move any adapters to different slot if possible.
Strip down to bare machine(remember to remove drives & also LED cables from
case to motherboard), then add items until symptom returns.
If above doesn't help...
Replace in order
Power supply
Memory and/or CPU
Motherboard
Other Adapters
Drives

I realize not everyone has all this available so my most likely suspects in
order are:
Power Supply (about $30 or less)
Memory (find a friend - a good friend;-)
Motherboard (get replacement under warranty)

Thanks,

Ben Siegrist
B&H Computers
ben@bhcomp.com
andre.moreau@alcatel.be wrote in message
<70kgm9$ep8@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be>...
>
>In article <70jlu7$8be$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>, "Ingram Reseller"
<free@service.com> writes:
>>My post is not a troll to find an opinion on Pcchips, but an attempt to
>>notify and solicit useful information.
>>Ben Siegrist
>
>I'm going to contribute something, which hopefully may help. I've just
upgraded
>my 486 with a PCChips 717 (I think yours is a BX chipset, mine's an LX
>with a PII-333). Seems to be a good board (for the money), and has been
>performing flawlessly with my SCSI disks (no IDEs) on bootup and beyond.
>Except for the following problem I've noticed recently, which *seems*
>to be similar to yours.
>
>My 717 has a 8MB AGP onboard video driver which I use (no extra video
card).
>It works fine, except recently I've been noticing that when I turn the PC
>on cold, the system hangs. That is, stead of powering on and normally the
>mobo bios cutting in followed by my Adaptec SCSI controller bios then
cutting
>in, the screen stays just black/blank without the mobo bios even cutting
in.
>Subsequent reboots seem to remedy the problem.
>
>I thought I had loose video connectors, but apparently not. It seems to
happen
>only when I boot up cold the first time (I use the PC in the evenings
only).
>
>I haven't had time to try this out yet, but I suspect that my 717's bios
>settings of "on" for "power conservation of the display" has something to
>do with it. There are some nifty power saving features in the bios, but I'm
>running on (my old 486's) AT power supply. I suspect some of the power
>down/suspend features of the mobo bios could be causing such problems.
>
>Don't know if it'll fix your disk boot problem, but worth a shot when
you're
>desperate!!
>
>Andre'.