Reset, Reset, Reset...

[Salvo]

Hello everyone.
I built my own computer, some time ago, but now it is starting to act up. When I hit the power button, the HD, CD-ROM lights and floppy lights come on and go off like normal, but the computer does not run. I used to be able to hit the reset button once and everything would be fine. For a month or two, everything worked like it should, hit the power button, computer comes on, but now I have to hit the reset button many times, 10+.

I checked to make sure it is not dirty inside, it is not. Checked the power switch wires going to the Mobo, they are fine. I even unpluged and replugged them.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

 

[Respital]

System specs please..

 

[Salvo]

I have an AMD Athlon(64) 3200+, 1GB RAM, Windows XP Home, Antec power supply, Radeon X1650 graphics card, Creative sound card, Sony DVD burner and a generic 56x CD-ROM, but I unplugged the power and data cable from both and tried to start and got the same problem.
If you need to know anything else, let me know.

 

[Salvo]

And my MoBo is Soyo Dragon K8USA.

 

[Interested]

i think that your mobo is dying, or the CPU is crapping, but its most likely the motherboard.

 

[porterjw]

Did you recently add any hardware to the system? Before replacing the MoBo, do you have a spare PSU you can hook up to see if it's a power issue?

 

[blacklabelrum]

maybe you should try swapping the PSU with a good working one. Sound like a power problem.

 

[The Good Guy]

When it finally works. Get the bios update for your model. you can find it on google.

 

[oscaryu1]

maybe you should try swapping the PSU with a good working one. Sound like a power problem.

Agreed. Sounds like the PSU is straining quite alot for power...