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P5GD2 Deluxe - Help!
Just got this MB from Newegg, and had quite a few headaches this
weekend. The physical install was a breeze; everything fit in the Thermaltake case and the Enermax Noisetaker 470 plugged in with more than enough juice to supply the board. I installed the recently released EX800XT video card in the PCI x16 slot, my SCSI card in the PCI slot, and 2 Maxtor SATA drives. Booted the computer up, set up the bios values as best I could (I know a majority of the settings, but some of them I had never heard of so I left them at "auto"). Set up both maxtors in RAID 0/1 configuration using the Intel matrix format-- no sweat. Rebooted with the WinXP install CD in the drive and the ICH6 drivers on a floppy, and the install went well, until it hit the "inspecting components" part of the install, at which point the computer froze. Rebooted and restarted-- same problem. This was with my WinXP install slipstreamed with SP2, so I thought it might be some strangeness there. Tried to reinstall with the regular XP install disc, and it didn't hang at that point, but never got further. After five minutes of no activity, I rebooted the machine and considered my options. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the new bios, thinking that would solve some sort of odd incompatibility. When I went to install it, I tried using both the Alt-F2 POST method (and it found the bios, said it was reading it, then rechecked the floppy, found the bios, read it... endless loop) then tried with the ASUS DOS utility, which didn't work either. I noticed as I was rebooting that the computer would take a longish time to soft-reset... possibly 20 seconds from hitting the reset button to it finally coming back up. When I plugged my speakers into the onboard soundcard, it would always say before rebooting "System reboot due to bad overclock" or something like that -- quite odd, since I wasn't overclocking the system at all and had everything on normal settings. At this point, I went back into the bios and turned everything to standard, thinking that the "auto" settings might be doing some odd behavior. I rebooted the system again, went into the WinXP install, and again it just kept querying the components ad infinitum without progressing. Seeing that it was 4am, I decided to let it run for what little overnight there still was, and inspect it in the morning. Well, this morning I was greeted with the bluescreen of death. A windows error reported that the system had automatically shutdown to prevent damage to the unit, and had done a physical memory dump. Crap, I thought. Back at square one. So I went ahead and hit the reset button, and then... nothing. My computer is completely dead. When I power the system up, the speakers make a little crackle that sounds like the sound system is coming alive... the hard drives spin up... and the graphics card lights up and the fan spins, but the computer will not POST at all, even though the internal LED is glowing green. It doesn't have any warning messages or anything, and now I'm totally frustrated at having this thing fail so completely during the install. Any ideas at all out there, friends? I could use suggestions. At this point, I'm just assuming that I got the unfortunate pick of a bad MB, and it's a question of sending it back for a working replacement. Thanks so much in advance.... |
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First thing would be to see if you can get some beeps out of it.
So pull everything (including graphics, memory, cpu) out and do the amplified speaker in the lime audio socket trick. (I take it the board has the voice reporter feature?). If you can get somewhere, then may be put the graphics back in to see if it will start to post. Add a floppy drive and try memtest86. Add a disc drive... but keep it stripped it to minimum and try a simple. IE no SCSI, no RAID, only 1 disc, everything else out or disabled... Oh and heaps of moral support from over here. - Tim wrote in message ... Just got this MB from Newegg, and had quite a few headaches this weekend. The physical install was a breeze; everything fit in the Thermaltake case and the Enermax Noisetaker 470 plugged in with more than enough juice to supply the board. I installed the recently released EX800XT video card in the PCI x16 slot, my SCSI card in the PCI slot, and 2 Maxtor SATA drives. Booted the computer up, set up the bios values as best I could (I know a majority of the settings, but some of them I had never heard of so I left them at "auto"). Set up both maxtors in RAID 0/1 configuration using the Intel matrix format-- no sweat. Rebooted with the WinXP install CD in the drive and the ICH6 drivers on a floppy, and the install went well, until it hit the "inspecting components" part of the install, at which point the computer froze. Rebooted and restarted-- same problem. This was with my WinXP install slipstreamed with SP2, so I thought it might be some strangeness there. Tried to reinstall with the regular XP install disc, and it didn't hang at that point, but never got further. After five minutes of no activity, I rebooted the machine and considered my options. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the new bios, thinking that would solve some sort of odd incompatibility. When I went to install it, I tried using both the Alt-F2 POST method (and it found the bios, said it was reading it, then rechecked the floppy, found the bios, read it... endless loop) then tried with the ASUS DOS utility, which didn't work either. I noticed as I was rebooting that the computer would take a longish time to soft-reset... possibly 20 seconds from hitting the reset button to it finally coming back up. When I plugged my speakers into the onboard soundcard, it would always say before rebooting "System reboot due to bad overclock" or something like that -- quite odd, since I wasn't overclocking the system at all and had everything on normal settings. At this point, I went back into the bios and turned everything to standard, thinking that the "auto" settings might be doing some odd behavior. I rebooted the system again, went into the WinXP install, and again it just kept querying the components ad infinitum without progressing. Seeing that it was 4am, I decided to let it run for what little overnight there still was, and inspect it in the morning. Well, this morning I was greeted with the bluescreen of death. A windows error reported that the system had automatically shutdown to prevent damage to the unit, and had done a physical memory dump. Crap, I thought. Back at square one. So I went ahead and hit the reset button, and then... nothing. My computer is completely dead. When I power the system up, the speakers make a little crackle that sounds like the sound system is coming alive... the hard drives spin up... and the graphics card lights up and the fan spins, but the computer will not POST at all, even though the internal LED is glowing green. It doesn't have any warning messages or anything, and now I'm totally frustrated at having this thing fail so completely during the install. Any ideas at all out there, friends? I could use suggestions. At this point, I'm just assuming that I got the unfortunate pick of a bad MB, and it's a question of sending it back for a working replacement. Thanks so much in advance.... |
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Great ideas... thanks. I'm hopeful this thing is recoverable. What a
headache to take it all apart again just to send that back... And the support is appreciated too... need all the karma I can get! On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:22:16 +1200, "Tim" wrote: First thing would be to see if you can get some beeps out of it. So pull everything (including graphics, memory, cpu) out and do the amplified speaker in the lime audio socket trick. (I take it the board has the voice reporter feature?). If you can get somewhere, then may be put the graphics back in to see if it will start to post. Add a floppy drive and try memtest86. Add a disc drive... but keep it stripped it to minimum and try a simple. IE no SCSI, no RAID, only 1 disc, everything else out or disabled... Oh and heaps of moral support from over here. - Tim |
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No luck.
I pulled everything out and rebooted. The soundcard said, "No CPU detected" and "CPU Fault" repeatedly. I reinstalled the CPU and rebooted. "Ram Error" was the reply. I installed the RAM, and it was quiet, but didn't boot. I rebooted the computer and the voice said "System Shutdown due to bad CPU overclocking" or something like that. At this point, I'm going to exchange the MB and the RAM. I got Kingston valueram, which seems very good, but I've read elsewhere that the motherboard is very finicky, so I'm opting to replace it with Corsair XMS2 PC2-5400 sticks to see if I don't have better luck with those. I'm hoping it isn't actually the CPU... but darned if I can figure out why it's coming up with a CPU overclock error when the bios wasn't even set to overclock anything to begin with (and, with a locked CPU to boot...) Has anyone had any luck with this (or a similar ASUS P5 motherboard) and Corsair's Ram? Thanks all, and thanks for the idea, Tim. On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:22:16 +1200, "Tim" wrote: First thing would be to see if you can get some beeps out of it. So pull everything (including graphics, memory, cpu) out and do the amplified speaker in the lime audio socket trick. (I take it the board has the voice reporter feature?). If you can get somewhere, then may be put the graphics back in to see if it will start to post. Add a floppy drive and try memtest86. Add a disc drive... but keep it stripped it to minimum and try a simple. IE no SCSI, no RAID, only 1 disc, everything else out or disabled... Oh and heaps of moral support from over here. - Tim wrote in message .. . Just got this MB from Newegg, and had quite a few headaches this weekend. The physical install was a breeze; everything fit in the Thermaltake case and the Enermax Noisetaker 470 plugged in with more than enough juice to supply the board. I installed the recently released EX800XT video card in the PCI x16 slot, my SCSI card in the PCI slot, and 2 Maxtor SATA drives. Booted the computer up, set up the bios values as best I could (I know a majority of the settings, but some of them I had never heard of so I left them at "auto"). Set up both maxtors in RAID 0/1 configuration using the Intel matrix format-- no sweat. Rebooted with the WinXP install CD in the drive and the ICH6 drivers on a floppy, and the install went well, until it hit the "inspecting components" part of the install, at which point the computer froze. Rebooted and restarted-- same problem. This was with my WinXP install slipstreamed with SP2, so I thought it might be some strangeness there. Tried to reinstall with the regular XP install disc, and it didn't hang at that point, but never got further. After five minutes of no activity, I rebooted the machine and considered my options. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the new bios, thinking that would solve some sort of odd incompatibility. When I went to install it, I tried using both the Alt-F2 POST method (and it found the bios, said it was reading it, then rechecked the floppy, found the bios, read it... endless loop) then tried with the ASUS DOS utility, which didn't work either. I noticed as I was rebooting that the computer would take a longish time to soft-reset... possibly 20 seconds from hitting the reset button to it finally coming back up. When I plugged my speakers into the onboard soundcard, it would always say before rebooting "System reboot due to bad overclock" or something like that -- quite odd, since I wasn't overclocking the system at all and had everything on normal settings. At this point, I went back into the bios and turned everything to standard, thinking that the "auto" settings might be doing some odd behavior. I rebooted the system again, went into the WinXP install, and again it just kept querying the components ad infinitum without progressing. Seeing that it was 4am, I decided to let it run for what little overnight there still was, and inspect it in the morning. Well, this morning I was greeted with the bluescreen of death. A windows error reported that the system had automatically shutdown to prevent damage to the unit, and had done a physical memory dump. Crap, I thought. Back at square one. So I went ahead and hit the reset button, and then... nothing. My computer is completely dead. When I power the system up, the speakers make a little crackle that sounds like the sound system is coming alive... the hard drives spin up... and the graphics card lights up and the fan spins, but the computer will not POST at all, even though the internal LED is glowing green. It doesn't have any warning messages or anything, and now I'm totally frustrated at having this thing fail so completely during the install. Any ideas at all out there, friends? I could use suggestions. At this point, I'm just assuming that I got the unfortunate pick of a bad MB, and it's a question of sending it back for a working replacement. Thanks so much in advance.... |
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Well, thats all good news. CPU works, RAM detected.
If yo ar going to persist, then clear cmos. If it allows you into the bios, then load defaults on the first page. If you still get instability then check memory timings and perhaps slow them right down. Unfortunately these boards are new, I don't have one, and you are currently "The Knowldege base". Have you double checked the memory specs on the asus site vs the ram you have purchased? It may just be the memory, who knows. - Tim wrote in message ... No luck. I pulled everything out and rebooted. The soundcard said, "No CPU detected" and "CPU Fault" repeatedly. I reinstalled the CPU and rebooted. "Ram Error" was the reply. I installed the RAM, and it was quiet, but didn't boot. I rebooted the computer and the voice said "System Shutdown due to bad CPU overclocking" or something like that. At this point, I'm going to exchange the MB and the RAM. I got Kingston valueram, which seems very good, but I've read elsewhere that the motherboard is very finicky, so I'm opting to replace it with Corsair XMS2 PC2-5400 sticks to see if I don't have better luck with those. I'm hoping it isn't actually the CPU... but darned if I can figure out why it's coming up with a CPU overclock error when the bios wasn't even set to overclock anything to begin with (and, with a locked CPU to boot...) Has anyone had any luck with this (or a similar ASUS P5 motherboard) and Corsair's Ram? Thanks all, and thanks for the idea, Tim. On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:22:16 +1200, "Tim" wrote: First thing would be to see if you can get some beeps out of it. So pull everything (including graphics, memory, cpu) out and do the amplified speaker in the lime audio socket trick. (I take it the board has the voice reporter feature?). If you can get somewhere, then may be put the graphics back in to see if it will start to post. Add a floppy drive and try memtest86. Add a disc drive... but keep it stripped it to minimum and try a simple. IE no SCSI, no RAID, only 1 disc, everything else out or disabled... Oh and heaps of moral support from over here. - Tim wrote in message . .. Just got this MB from Newegg, and had quite a few headaches this weekend. The physical install was a breeze; everything fit in the Thermaltake case and the Enermax Noisetaker 470 plugged in with more than enough juice to supply the board. I installed the recently released EX800XT video card in the PCI x16 slot, my SCSI card in the PCI slot, and 2 Maxtor SATA drives. Booted the computer up, set up the bios values as best I could (I know a majority of the settings, but some of them I had never heard of so I left them at "auto"). Set up both maxtors in RAID 0/1 configuration using the Intel matrix format-- no sweat. Rebooted with the WinXP install CD in the drive and the ICH6 drivers on a floppy, and the install went well, until it hit the "inspecting components" part of the install, at which point the computer froze. Rebooted and restarted-- same problem. This was with my WinXP install slipstreamed with SP2, so I thought it might be some strangeness there. Tried to reinstall with the regular XP install disc, and it didn't hang at that point, but never got further. After five minutes of no activity, I rebooted the machine and considered my options. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the new bios, thinking that would solve some sort of odd incompatibility. When I went to install it, I tried using both the Alt-F2 POST method (and it found the bios, said it was reading it, then rechecked the floppy, found the bios, read it... endless loop) then tried with the ASUS DOS utility, which didn't work either. I noticed as I was rebooting that the computer would take a longish time to soft-reset... possibly 20 seconds from hitting the reset button to it finally coming back up. When I plugged my speakers into the onboard soundcard, it would always say before rebooting "System reboot due to bad overclock" or something like that -- quite odd, since I wasn't overclocking the system at all and had everything on normal settings. At this point, I went back into the bios and turned everything to standard, thinking that the "auto" settings might be doing some odd behavior. I rebooted the system again, went into the WinXP install, and again it just kept querying the components ad infinitum without progressing. Seeing that it was 4am, I decided to let it run for what little overnight there still was, and inspect it in the morning. Well, this morning I was greeted with the bluescreen of death. A windows error reported that the system had automatically shutdown to prevent damage to the unit, and had done a physical memory dump. Crap, I thought. Back at square one. So I went ahead and hit the reset button, and then... nothing. My computer is completely dead. When I power the system up, the speakers make a little crackle that sounds like the sound system is coming alive... the hard drives spin up... and the graphics card lights up and the fan spins, but the computer will not POST at all, even though the internal LED is glowing green. It doesn't have any warning messages or anything, and now I'm totally frustrated at having this thing fail so completely during the install. Any ideas at all out there, friends? I could use suggestions. At this point, I'm just assuming that I got the unfortunate pick of a bad MB, and it's a question of sending it back for a working replacement. Thanks so much in advance.... |
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Sounds like your attempted BIOS upgrade failed. Time for a new motherboard,
I'm afraid. -- DaveW wrote in message ... Just got this MB from Newegg, and had quite a few headaches this weekend. The physical install was a breeze; everything fit in the Thermaltake case and the Enermax Noisetaker 470 plugged in with more than enough juice to supply the board. I installed the recently released EX800XT video card in the PCI x16 slot, my SCSI card in the PCI slot, and 2 Maxtor SATA drives. Booted the computer up, set up the bios values as best I could (I know a majority of the settings, but some of them I had never heard of so I left them at "auto"). Set up both maxtors in RAID 0/1 configuration using the Intel matrix format-- no sweat. Rebooted with the WinXP install CD in the drive and the ICH6 drivers on a floppy, and the install went well, until it hit the "inspecting components" part of the install, at which point the computer froze. Rebooted and restarted-- same problem. This was with my WinXP install slipstreamed with SP2, so I thought it might be some strangeness there. Tried to reinstall with the regular XP install disc, and it didn't hang at that point, but never got further. After five minutes of no activity, I rebooted the machine and considered my options. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the new bios, thinking that would solve some sort of odd incompatibility. When I went to install it, I tried using both the Alt-F2 POST method (and it found the bios, said it was reading it, then rechecked the floppy, found the bios, read it... endless loop) then tried with the ASUS DOS utility, which didn't work either. I noticed as I was rebooting that the computer would take a longish time to soft-reset... possibly 20 seconds from hitting the reset button to it finally coming back up. When I plugged my speakers into the onboard soundcard, it would always say before rebooting "System reboot due to bad overclock" or something like that -- quite odd, since I wasn't overclocking the system at all and had everything on normal settings. At this point, I went back into the bios and turned everything to standard, thinking that the "auto" settings might be doing some odd behavior. I rebooted the system again, went into the WinXP install, and again it just kept querying the components ad infinitum without progressing. Seeing that it was 4am, I decided to let it run for what little overnight there still was, and inspect it in the morning. Well, this morning I was greeted with the bluescreen of death. A windows error reported that the system had automatically shutdown to prevent damage to the unit, and had done a physical memory dump. Crap, I thought. Back at square one. So I went ahead and hit the reset button, and then... nothing. My computer is completely dead. When I power the system up, the speakers make a little crackle that sounds like the sound system is coming alive... the hard drives spin up... and the graphics card lights up and the fan spins, but the computer will not POST at all, even though the internal LED is glowing green. It doesn't have any warning messages or anything, and now I'm totally frustrated at having this thing fail so completely during the install. Any ideas at all out there, friends? I could use suggestions. At this point, I'm just assuming that I got the unfortunate pick of a bad MB, and it's a question of sending it back for a working replacement. Thanks so much in advance.... |
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Well, I did try and clear the cmos... twice. No dice. I finally
packed it all up when it failed to post successfully; in the past, it would give the cpu overclock error, but at least allow me to get into the cmos to try and change the values. Now, it's not even getting that far. No ideas... On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:00:03 +1200, "Tim" wrote: Well, thats all good news. CPU works, RAM detected. If yo ar going to persist, then clear cmos. If it allows you into the bios, then load defaults on the first page. If you still get instability then check memory timings and perhaps slow them right down. Unfortunately these boards are new, I don't have one, and you are currently "The Knowldege base". Have you double checked the memory specs on the asus site vs the ram you have purchased? It may just be the memory, who knows. - Tim wrote in message ... No luck. I pulled everything out and rebooted. The soundcard said, "No CPU detected" and "CPU Fault" repeatedly. I reinstalled the CPU and rebooted. "Ram Error" was the reply. I installed the RAM, and it was quiet, but didn't boot. I rebooted the computer and the voice said "System Shutdown due to bad CPU overclocking" or something like that. At this point, I'm going to exchange the MB and the RAM. I got Kingston valueram, which seems very good, but I've read elsewhere that the motherboard is very finicky, so I'm opting to replace it with Corsair XMS2 PC2-5400 sticks to see if I don't have better luck with those. I'm hoping it isn't actually the CPU... but darned if I can figure out why it's coming up with a CPU overclock error when the bios wasn't even set to overclock anything to begin with (and, with a locked CPU to boot...) Has anyone had any luck with this (or a similar ASUS P5 motherboard) and Corsair's Ram? Thanks all, and thanks for the idea, Tim. On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 15:22:16 +1200, "Tim" wrote: First thing would be to see if you can get some beeps out of it. So pull everything (including graphics, memory, cpu) out and do the amplified speaker in the lime audio socket trick. (I take it the board has the voice reporter feature?). If you can get somewhere, then may be put the graphics back in to see if it will start to post. Add a floppy drive and try memtest86. Add a disc drive... but keep it stripped it to minimum and try a simple. IE no SCSI, no RAID, only 1 disc, everything else out or disabled... Oh and heaps of moral support from over here. - Tim wrote in message .. . Just got this MB from Newegg, and had quite a few headaches this weekend. The physical install was a breeze; everything fit in the Thermaltake case and the Enermax Noisetaker 470 plugged in with more than enough juice to supply the board. I installed the recently released EX800XT video card in the PCI x16 slot, my SCSI card in the PCI slot, and 2 Maxtor SATA drives. Booted the computer up, set up the bios values as best I could (I know a majority of the settings, but some of them I had never heard of so I left them at "auto"). Set up both maxtors in RAID 0/1 configuration using the Intel matrix format-- no sweat. Rebooted with the WinXP install CD in the drive and the ICH6 drivers on a floppy, and the install went well, until it hit the "inspecting components" part of the install, at which point the computer froze. Rebooted and restarted-- same problem. This was with my WinXP install slipstreamed with SP2, so I thought it might be some strangeness there. Tried to reinstall with the regular XP install disc, and it didn't hang at that point, but never got further. After five minutes of no activity, I rebooted the machine and considered my options. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the new bios, thinking that would solve some sort of odd incompatibility. When I went to install it, I tried using both the Alt-F2 POST method (and it found the bios, said it was reading it, then rechecked the floppy, found the bios, read it... endless loop) then tried with the ASUS DOS utility, which didn't work either. I noticed as I was rebooting that the computer would take a longish time to soft-reset... possibly 20 seconds from hitting the reset button to it finally coming back up. When I plugged my speakers into the onboard soundcard, it would always say before rebooting "System reboot due to bad overclock" or something like that -- quite odd, since I wasn't overclocking the system at all and had everything on normal settings. At this point, I went back into the bios and turned everything to standard, thinking that the "auto" settings might be doing some odd behavior. I rebooted the system again, went into the WinXP install, and again it just kept querying the components ad infinitum without progressing. Seeing that it was 4am, I decided to let it run for what little overnight there still was, and inspect it in the morning. Well, this morning I was greeted with the bluescreen of death. A windows error reported that the system had automatically shutdown to prevent damage to the unit, and had done a physical memory dump. Crap, I thought. Back at square one. So I went ahead and hit the reset button, and then... nothing. My computer is completely dead. When I power the system up, the speakers make a little crackle that sounds like the sound system is coming alive... the hard drives spin up... and the graphics card lights up and the fan spins, but the computer will not POST at all, even though the internal LED is glowing green. It doesn't have any warning messages or anything, and now I'm totally frustrated at having this thing fail so completely during the install. Any ideas at all out there, friends? I could use suggestions. At this point, I'm just assuming that I got the unfortunate pick of a bad MB, and it's a question of sending it back for a working replacement. Thanks so much in advance.... |
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Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Totally sucks... =(
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:13:29 GMT, "DaveW" wrote: Sounds like your attempted BIOS upgrade failed. Time for a new motherboard, I'm afraid. -- DaveW wrote in message .. . Just got this MB from Newegg, and had quite a few headaches this weekend. The physical install was a breeze; everything fit in the Thermaltake case and the Enermax Noisetaker 470 plugged in with more than enough juice to supply the board. I installed the recently released EX800XT video card in the PCI x16 slot, my SCSI card in the PCI slot, and 2 Maxtor SATA drives. Booted the computer up, set up the bios values as best I could (I know a majority of the settings, but some of them I had never heard of so I left them at "auto"). Set up both maxtors in RAID 0/1 configuration using the Intel matrix format-- no sweat. Rebooted with the WinXP install CD in the drive and the ICH6 drivers on a floppy, and the install went well, until it hit the "inspecting components" part of the install, at which point the computer froze. Rebooted and restarted-- same problem. This was with my WinXP install slipstreamed with SP2, so I thought it might be some strangeness there. Tried to reinstall with the regular XP install disc, and it didn't hang at that point, but never got further. After five minutes of no activity, I rebooted the machine and considered my options. I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the new bios, thinking that would solve some sort of odd incompatibility. When I went to install it, I tried using both the Alt-F2 POST method (and it found the bios, said it was reading it, then rechecked the floppy, found the bios, read it... endless loop) then tried with the ASUS DOS utility, which didn't work either. I noticed as I was rebooting that the computer would take a longish time to soft-reset... possibly 20 seconds from hitting the reset button to it finally coming back up. When I plugged my speakers into the onboard soundcard, it would always say before rebooting "System reboot due to bad overclock" or something like that -- quite odd, since I wasn't overclocking the system at all and had everything on normal settings. At this point, I went back into the bios and turned everything to standard, thinking that the "auto" settings might be doing some odd behavior. I rebooted the system again, went into the WinXP install, and again it just kept querying the components ad infinitum without progressing. Seeing that it was 4am, I decided to let it run for what little overnight there still was, and inspect it in the morning. Well, this morning I was greeted with the bluescreen of death. A windows error reported that the system had automatically shutdown to prevent damage to the unit, and had done a physical memory dump. Crap, I thought. Back at square one. So I went ahead and hit the reset button, and then... nothing. My computer is completely dead. When I power the system up, the speakers make a little crackle that sounds like the sound system is coming alive... the hard drives spin up... and the graphics card lights up and the fan spins, but the computer will not POST at all, even though the internal LED is glowing green. It doesn't have any warning messages or anything, and now I'm totally frustrated at having this thing fail so completely during the install. Any ideas at all out there, friends? I could use suggestions. At this point, I'm just assuming that I got the unfortunate pick of a bad MB, and it's a question of sending it back for a working replacement. Thanks so much in advance.... |
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