I am experiencing a strange problem with one of my computers lately. My guess would be that something is wrong with the motherboard. My little brother screwed around with it like 4 months ago and since then I am trying to figure out what has gone wrong.
This is the problem: Whenever I try to turn on my computer, I have to detach the network cable and wait approximately 2 seconds for it to turn on and boot. Afterwards I can plug the cable back into the motherboard's onboard LAN connector.
Now why the hell is this so? It is really getting annoying. I cannot just switch that piece of shit on without crawling under my desk. Nothing else seems to be broken except for my cpu fan-connector. That thing just stopped supplying enough current so I have to use the case fan connector for my cpu. This leads me to the conclusion that something with the power supply must be wrong or a capacitor might have popped on the board.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I don't think it matters but the board is one of those ASUS AI boards. I would have to look up the model. It carries an Athlon64 AMD cpu, first batch.
I am not an electronics expert and neither an IT pro but I have put together dozens of computers in my life and have never seen or heard of a similar problem. What the hell could that be? Have I been smoking too much pott lately or what?
This is the problem: Whenever I try to turn on my computer, I have to detach the network cable and wait approximately 2 seconds for it to turn on and boot. Afterwards I can plug the cable back into the motherboard's onboard LAN connector.
Now why the hell is this so? It is really getting annoying. I cannot just switch that piece of shit on without crawling under my desk. Nothing else seems to be broken except for my cpu fan-connector. That thing just stopped supplying enough current so I have to use the case fan connector for my cpu. This leads me to the conclusion that something with the power supply must be wrong or a capacitor might have popped on the board.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be? I don't think it matters but the board is one of those ASUS AI boards. I would have to look up the model. It carries an Athlon64 AMD cpu, first batch.
I am not an electronics expert and neither an IT pro but I have put together dozens of computers in my life and have never seen or heard of a similar problem. What the hell could that be? Have I been smoking too much pott lately or what?