REQUEST:
People, please read through the thread before posting a response here. Thread topics have a habit of changing over the course of a few days when the thread-starter keeps updating his situation.
REQUEST:
People, please pay attention to those who "actually" knows what's been happening with Altec's system. Even though the topic discussion has been changed over time, they are "aware" of what's has happened and changed with his system.
I swapped out with my old Dell PSU and it does not seem to be the problem. The motherboard is toast I think. I called Abit Tech Support, and told them the entire situation. The guy told me that it sounded like I have BIOS corruption or some other problem, and told me to just RMA the board. I just finished my RMA request, so hopefully I will have a new board soon.
As I knew, the motherboard could easily be the problem. Many people tend to blame on the PSUs, very easily. At some point, they automatically blame on the PSUs. PSUs can go wrong yes.. but there has been more problems with the board causing problems than the PSUs do lately.
As I have mentioned before, motherboard can cause this. It happened to me before. Almost similar problem as Altec's, which is, system auto reboot and fans go up and down as if the system is ready to go "sleepy".
That's the board that is causing problem, not necessarily the PSU. I have tried three different PSUs on that same board. Antec PP403x 400watt, Antec TruePower TrueControl 550watt, and Antec SmartPower 350. All gave same problem. The problem remained. It was the (excuse me)Freakin' board. I have plenty of experience with all these boards. People also blame on the PSUs because they can't overclock to where they want when there were actually other components were the limiting factors, including your cooling/overclocking skills.
and this is why I asked him:
did the system ever reboot when you try/or accidently moving/ touching the ATX Power connector or the Wires that goes to the ATX Power connector? I found some Abit NF7 board does it, which happens to be defact.
The words aren't just there to fill space. They have meanings.. and not trying to waste time either. Very powerful meaning.