>Hello anyone!
>
>I have an old MSI K7T Pro2 mobo, 1200 AMD T-bird, and some RAM, Geforce2
>   AGP card. I know CPU, Graphiccard and RAM is working just fine. PSU
>is new.
>So this is what happens: Everythings seems ok, D-LED on the mobo is
>telling me that during POST it was no problems. After +/- 20 sek. the
>monitor goes in to sleepmode, and I cant wake it up again. All fans is
>still going, and D-LED are all ok (green). But it seems that the prosess
>Im doing stops, --> installation of WinXP
>
>Do anyone have a clue of whats wrong?? Is it the mobo, or is it
>something I have done during hardware-installations?
>
>Sorry for the bad english.

"kony" wrote:
>  Lars Varheim wrote:
>
> >Hello anyone!
> >
> >I have an old MSI K7T Pro2 mobo, 1200 AMD T-bird, and some RAM, Geforce2
> >   AGP card. I know CPU, Graphiccard and RAM is working just fine. PSU
> >is new.
> >So this is what happens: Everythings seems ok, D-LED on the mobo is
> >telling me that during POST it was no problems. After +/- 20 sek. the
> >monitor goes in to sleepmode, and I cant wake it up again. All fans is
> >still going, and D-LED are all ok (green). But it seems that the prosess
> >Im doing stops, --> installation of WinXP
> >
> >Do anyone have a clue of whats wrong?? Is it the mobo, or is it
> >something I have done during hardware-installations?
> >
> >Sorry for the bad english.
>
>
> Check the temperatures and voltages.
>
> Try leaving the system sitting in the bios menus instead of
> trying to install Windows.  Determine if the system would've
> crashed (or whatever it is doing) regardless of whether you
> were trying to install WinXP.
>
> You wrote that "PSU is new" but is it a good power supply, a
> decent name-brand with at least 200W of 3V+5V capacity
> (check it's label) ?
>
> I vaguely recall that some K7T Pro2 motherboards had
> capacitor problems.  It "might" have been the two capacitors
> directly above the AGP slot, but I am not sure of this.  You
> should examine the motherboard for any signs of capacitor
> failures-  domed tops, vented, leaking residue.