ASUS and Mach II GT Reboot problem

[goatboy]

I recently posted this in the ETC forums.


Whenever I make a change in my BIOS, save and exit, my pc restarts normally(though it seems like the Mach II kicks off a little roughly). When it starts back up again, the green light goes out, the two yellows come on, and the red one is flashing on the Mach II. According to the Prometeia manual, it say a problem with a sensor or connection to the chip controller. The unit is only a little over a month old and has always had this problem.

According to Everest, the unit is still cooling my CPU. It's just that the wrong lights are on. And every so often, it will blow the 6.5A fuse.

When I exit BIOS by "discard changes and exit", everything operates normally.

This only happens when I make a change in the BIOS. It's getting to be a pain in the butt trying to OC my PC since it takes 5 minutes in between changing a BIOS setting.

CPU is X6800, mobo is ASUS P5W DH, and Windows Pro x64. Because Prometeia does not support 64 bit Windows, I am unable to install the software.

Anyone have any idea what is wrong?



And this is one of the answers I recieved.



There are other guys with more experience than me here in the working and control of machs.

I can tell you that ASUS have put an annoying cold boot feature into their recent BIOS's (which essentially is an auto switch off/switch on system that confuses the mach forcing it to shut down and restart too many times) - to overcome this I used a spearate PSU for the mach and that work really well coz I can switch the pc on/off as many times as is needed without worrying about the mach. The way it works is that you fire up the mach by bridging hte blue/white wire (I touch the case with the two prongs a few times) so that teh mach starts up, when the mach reaches say -40, turn on the PC and the 2nd PSU and you are away

One word of warning though - when switching off make sure (if you employ this method) that you switch everything off (including the mach) I accidentally switched the PC off and left the mach on overnight - I woke up to a blown board




Has anyone else experienced a problem like I'm having? Does it have to do with the ASUS BIOS?

I'm not too thrilled about having to "touch the case with the two prongs" idea.

I'm happy with ASUS. If I decided to have Chilly or Jinu build a custom phase change for me, would this alleviate the problem?

[ThorLite]

The only way is to use a second PSU and its not very difficult and it will save the prometeia compressor.All asus boards have this turn on/off feature.......

[fatty]

I did give you an answer as well get a cheap psu ( you will need to mod it so it will run as soon as its switched on or plugged into mains ) use the start switch from your case to start the mach2 once the mach 2 is down to its boot temp plug it into your external psu ( the one you have modded to run ) now your mach is running and will stay running until you unplug it from the external psu as for your mother board and switching the rest of your pc on you will need to use another switch maybe your reset switch ?? or if you have an old case rip a switch out of it....

As for a custom phase change you could get one made but I dont see the point all the custom unit will do is run constantly once you have switched it on if you want that you could just mod yer mach

[kayl]

this is an issue that was also present in the gfroster controller.
Im sure the Mach2 guys will re-write the software to accomade this.
Reading i though they had alread made this update in their bios.

Ya could have a gfroster controller installed, but would wait for new bios for the controller.