Try disabling advanced power management in BIOS first before replacing the
modem with a recommended brand.
Modern motherboards still keep 3.3 V flowing through the PCI bus in a soft
shutdown; it's meant to detect Wake-on-LAN devices. For some people building
PCs from scratch, this has lead to a few dead Athlons when the user plugged
in a PCI card before installing a heat sink on the CPU... Always unplug the
power cord when servicing internal components.
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"kgdb" <kg DeleteThis @db.com> wrote in message news:SQQ4c.797877$ts4.745432@pd7tw3no...
> This may be old news here but I had a looked and couldnt see a similar
problem so thought I would
> ask here. I am setting up a system and am using a K7S5A Pro motherboard
and a XP 1800. The system
> works great, no issues at all except when I try to install a modem. When
I install the modem in the
> PCI slot the computer appears to come to life from the shut down state! It
trys to power up but is
> not able to but the fans etc are running and the screen is blank! Never
seen this before! If I try
> to reboot I get the same thing over and over. If I remove the modem it
boots and runs just fine! In
> a fast google search it seems others have had this problem with the K7S5A
but I was not able to find
> a solution? Anyone here ever see this problem before? Thanks in
advance....
>
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