I think my MB has POST problem

[E2C3]

Hi ,

Can anyone help me ?

I have just bought a new kit that consist of AOpen AK73 Pro(A) motherboard after reading good review on TOMSHARDWARE guide. It was built without problem and it was up and running with Win 98SE, after 6 hours of playing games on it, it crashed and was unable to reboot (hang on Win98 screen). I have tried to boot using the startup disk (floppy), it boot as far as trying to setup the CDROM. So I thought there maybe somthing wrong with IDE (primary or secondary). I stripped out varies PCI cards, clear cmos, primary IDE, clear cmos, secondary IDE, clear cmos, and now it fail to bootup completely. This motherboard has voice help, i.e. it tells me what it thinks is wrong. I remove everything on the motherboard and power up, the voice said "There may be a problem with your cpu". Then I put in the CPU and power up and it said "there may be a problem with your memory" .Then I put in the memory (have checked it is OK) but this time the system stays quiet, no bleep, no nothing and clearing the CMOS made no different. I suspect the BIOS is gone. What I expect is that it will say "there may be a problem with your VGA" . When it was working before I have once forgot to connect the keyboard and mouse to the motherboard and the voice said "there may be a problem with your keyboard" and halt the bootup. Is there anything I can do ? Anyone come across this problem ?

Hope someone can help

[Randy_tx]

What is your cpu and did you try overclocking it??

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[E2C3]

Not yet try to overclock, just trying to get the system up
and running stable first. CPU is Duron 800. I have a big fan
on the CPU and turned on thermal protection on MB to shut system
down if it gets a little hot.

[Randy_tx]

Here is the sequence of routines I use to determine what is preventing a post-up (I assume you cant even get into the Bios...correct?):
1. Pull out memory sticks and replace with KNOWN good memory and try to post. If no post then.....
2. Remove video card and replace with another card........If no post then..
3. Replace the cpu chip and try........If no post.....
Then its the motherboard...
I dont have a hard drive, cd rom or floppy drive connected when I do ANY of this routine.....I'm ONLY trying to determine if the core components are in working order. After I am able to post (that is, see the computer do the RAM count & allow me to push delete key to go into BIOS), THEN I will start putting devices on the motherboard like hard drives and cd roms etc.
Hope this helps http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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"As hard as a rock & dumb as a brick"...Windows CEMeNT