System displays white dialog box with blue top line stating "Entering Sleep Mode" when system is booted.
This happens before XP starts to load. I have pulled the battery on the motherboard to clear the CMOS and reset all the previous settings especially checking the power management setup.
Still getting the "Entering sleep mode" box on power up and have to turn power off several times before the system sucessfully boots into XP.
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Which ITOX Motherboard?
ITOX has occasionally used cheap capacitors so inspect them.
Most low end power supplies and many higher end power supplies built in the last 5 or 6 years also used cheap capacitors. - Inspect the caps inside your PSU too.
[DO NOT have the PSU open with AC power applied. (aka unplug it first.). With power applied the heatsinks are energized and may be at 2x to 4x the line (wall) voltage.]
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by: AuriclusPosted on 2008-05-29 at 12:53:19ID: 21672760
Hmm... curious.
Have you gone to the BIOS as well and reset the setting to the defaults? Pulling the battery is good but best to cover all the bases and reset it to the factory defaults.
I wonder if this is related to the power supply. Try this: remove all your PCI cards, unhook your CD drives, your floppy, everything, so that you are just running on one hard drive, your motherboard and 1 stick of RAM (in the first RAM slot). And then try rebooting and see if the power requirements are causing an issue or if there's something else going on here.
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