About a month ago I bought a Soyo Fire Dragon P4 MB and an
Enermax 550w power supply. It worked fine at first then I started
having problems. My computer would just turn off while I was in the middle of doing something then it wouldn't turn back on for a while. If I tried to turn right back on after doing this it would stay on for about a minute then shut off again. I let this go because
it all of a sudden stopped and didn't do it for about three weeks.
A couple days ago it did it again and I waited a little while and turned it back on, shortly after it did it again and now won't turn on at all. I don't know what the problem is I've troubleshooted enough computer problems to know what I'm doing. The PS is P4 ready and all the voltages seem within a reasonable level. It's just me but it doesn't seem like a motherboard problem. The manual that came with the power supply said something about
overvoltage and how the power supply will shut itself off but I don't know why it would be doing this. Any help would be appreciated as I feel like I'm up a wall with this.

BTW I have to get my computer running by September 24th
because thats when Unreal Tournament 2003 comes out.

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2.0A ghz. P4, Soyo P4 Fire Dragon, 512mb Samsung PC2100 DDR
Nividia Geforce 4 TI 4600, Western Digital 40 GB 5400 rpm HD,
Soundblaster Live, Lian Li midtower

I don't know if any of you remember me but I was a member here
before but when I came back my username was Invalid. Can I get my number of posts back? I think I had around 60.

Back to the problem.

Duck some of the stuff sounds kinda familiar. I have no problems
with my soundcard drivers really. I have the Internet Explorer problem where it gives an error and closes but I've seen this with every machine that runs XP. Programming of IE maybe?

My machine literally shuts off, now it won't turn on whatsoever. I have had my system freeze up a couple times while playing neverwinter nights. note: if you have the reboot on failure box checked in system properties it will reboot on an error. It seems like my problem is hardware rather than software. I might have got a faulty MB or PS. I want to try to put a different P4 PS in to see if it will turn on with that. If it turns on it's definetly the PS
but up until now it could still be the MB as well.

BTW the old Nividia detonator drivers caused a problem with infinite loops that will cause a system crash. The new Detonators
are much more stable.

Has anyone else had a problem with Soyo boards or Enermax power supplies?

You figure I'll pay a little extra cash for a better product but I guess thats not the case.

Also I kinda find it weird that my problem came in spurts and that it didn't consistently happen.

oh, and the last time the problem happened I was just browsing the internet.

Quote: Originally posted by Shape79 ... Can I get my number of posts back? I think I had around 60.

60? nice try though Your post count is set to the 24 + the 3 here = 27. 60!....heh. I guess it was worth a shot

Have you played with the bios at all? Can you get to the bios now?
how many beeps do you get, or do you get any at all when you try to power up?


Look Here at another thread that deals with a Soyo board and it wiggin out

Friggin Dragon boards messin up everywhere. The Soyo conspiracy! LOL

I got most of the kinks out and my SY-KT333 Dragon Ultra Platinum and it is runnin better now......how about your's Duck?

Could be the mobo....maybe Soyo has a disgruntled employee that likes to skip the quality control......possible.......I seen it done at Motorola before, although I'm not supposed to talk about that.

maybe 60 was the other forum I havent been on in a while I wasn't trying to pad my posts or anything. Just a case of bad memory. It seemed like I did a lot of posting on here. Glad to have 27 though.

Anyways nothing happens when I try to turn the system on(dead). Whats the problems you've been having with soyo boards. Anybody having as I have been getting. When I could power up I configured my bios and my beeps sounded fine.

Is there maybe a flaw in the MB rather than PS.

It's a shame on the Soyo boards if they are the problem as they are some of the highest benchmarking boards available.

When my comp was running good it was fast as hell

Quake III - all setting cranked to the max highest resolution @ 75 FPS.
Unreal Tournament - All setting cranked 1024x768 @ 70-75 FPS.

I did good on MadOnion too don't remember the score.

Like I said though once in a while I would get the reboot thing
but nothing major.

I wish I could get all my thoughts out in one post

I RMA'ed 2 dragon boards before I finally decided I need a mb that works and bought my gygabyte! Much happer now no more random crashes, no more wont boot until the 5th time beeeeeep. No more soyo for me. I even read reveiews about this board before I bought it, what i should have done was look at the help forums first and seen how many people got screwed by this board!

I will definetly try switching up power supplies to see if that works

How long do you have to send something back to a company, or does it vary with companies?

OK power supply is definetly the problem. I took the power supply out and put it in my Pentium III based machine. Comp. wouldn't turn on. Now I've got to RMA this S.O.B. what fun

Quote: Originally posted by tdigweed no more random crashes, no more wont boot until the 5th time beeeeeep. No more soyo for me.

Did you have the random reboot also? What about IE crashing?