A nagging power problem

[viking12344]

One of my machines is a 800 MHz duron with 512MB of pc133. It is running a voodoo5 right now but has had a gf2 ultra in it before. It is running on a soyo board. The os is win 98(fresh install).

My problem is, when the machine is turned off for more than a couple minutes it locks up upon startup. It may not be for a couple minutes...and it is never in the same place....but it does it every time. It has happened over 3 different OS installs (all 98) over the past year or so. All installs were done by removing the partition and reformating.

What I do is start up the machine, run scandisk once in the OS and let it freeze. I them hard boot it and it will work fine until I power it down again and start it the next day.

I thought it may be ram.....but that would not explain why it works fine after the initial lock up. The only other thing I can think of is the MB or PS......has anyone run into something like this?


Thanks.

[Buzioid]

hmmm, i dont think it is hardware related, althought i could be wrong. have you tried another OS???

[jmebonner]

you could run www.memtest86.com to find out if it is indeed the ram or not. It takes a while though, so be forewarned. I run it before I head to bed.

[sam]

it kinda sounds like earler threads ive read and it ended up being the power supply was insufficient and need a bigger ps