Help with abit boards???

[MikejwZ34]

Everytime I install one of Abits motherboards they always work great but I am concerned with the self-off feature in windows. when I had my Abit BH6 and when I shut down the computer it always powered itself off and I never had to press the power button, but when I got my Abit BE6-II and Abit BP6 they self powered down fine but when I installed the Ultra-ATA drivers and shut down I have to push and hold the power button for 4 seconds for it to power off, and I even did a clean install of Windows 98 SE and Windows ME. Well I dont have those boards anymore and I picked up 2 Abit KT7-Raid boards and the same crap happens when I did a clean install of WinME it shuts down itself untill I installed the Ultra-ATA/100 drivers and now I have to use the power button again. Is there a option in the bios that I am overlooking like in the ACPI settings or is this normal(No Self Off with ATA) Please help me out guys.

Thanks

MikejwZ34

 

[MikejwZ34]

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[Skiracer]

Which ATA-100 drivers are you installing? The only ATA-100 interface on the KT7/RAID is the Highpoint RAID controller. The standard IDE interface on the KT7 is ATA-66. The drivers you should load for this MB are: Latest BIOS ver (WZ I believe), the Highpoint ver 1.03 drivers, and the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers (4.28 I think). If you are trying to install anything else, you may be inducing your own problems. BTW, my KT7-RAID self-powers off every time, no problems.

Good Luck

 

[MikejwZ34]

yup those are the drivers I am using and I still have the problems I think its a setting in the bios. also are you using the ATA-100 Controller of are you just using the 33/66?

 

[MikejwZ34]

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[MikejwZ34]

Come on people help me out

 

[TELeast]

I am not entirely sure what the problem is...but here's some input:

I have used BH6, BP6, SH6 and KT7-100RAID. I never experienced those problems, except maybe a serious system crash.

Could it be the power supply that you are using? Or the case with a defective power on switch (like short circuiting or something on the reset or power) These are just educated guesses.

Or there is a small chance it could be a defective keyboard. I have seen this happen before with a cheapo motherboard when I was working techie at a computer shop.

 

[Ocmax1]

maybe u have a virus... lol

 

[Netopia]

It's in the softmenu....maybe. I believe that you'll find it under the Power area and listed as something like "Power Off Button" and your only two options are "Inst Off" and "4 Sec Delay". Sounds to me like yours is set to the latter. It's just there so that you can't accidently shutdown your machine by hitting the off button.

I'm not entirely sure that this is the problem with your auto-shutdown though. You might as well give it a try.

Joe

 

[MikejwZ34]

ok guys I tried everything and still no go. this only happenes if as soon as the highpoint drivers are installed. with out the highpoint drivers there is no problem here, but I need my ata 100 thanks guys for trying

 

[TELeast]

just being logical here:

if you have used 4 different boards and the same problem happens. Then I think the chances that the problem is in the BIOS is small. You'd probably have more chance winning the lottery than getting 4 boards in a roll that has the same problem...or even having the same weird setting in the BIOS on 4 boards in a roll..

maybe you should think of the constant things ...like the hard drive, since this is ATA/100 related. I assume that when the same problem occured in the BE62 and the BP6, you were refering to ATA/66. The BH6 only had ATA/33 running on BX chipsets. Have you tried using a different hard drive?

From what I remember of the ABIT BIOS settings (I am at work now, and work computer is a crap HP), I don't remember there's any special setting which sets the "power off wait when using HighPoint". I could have overlooked, but I think you must have checked and went through the BIOS sixteen times.

Hmm...I don't know if what I said help you at all...but it was just me thinking out loud. Hope it helps...good luck.

 

[MikejwZ34]

I Have changed every single part in the computers with a different setups and still the same problem I thinks its something I have enabled/disabled in the bios and when I was talking about the BH6 I meant that I want all of my motherboards to be like that board because I had no problems with it at all. So I know its something enabled or disabled because It will shut down correctly when the highpoint drivers are NOT! installed anyways it must be something in the bios thats what I was thinking. but could it be something with that suspend to ram jumper on the motherboard itself?

 

[TELeast]

hmm...it's beyond me now...

maybe you should try posting your question to the KT7 FAQ page. I don't have the link with me...perheps some1 can help...

I'll go home tonight and check the BIOS settings..

 

[MikejwZ34]

Ok thanks alot