New (almost) motherboard won't boot

[ziradog]

I recently recieved a pile that included (among other things) a Epox EP-KXA rev. 4 mother board, a Tekram K7KX-A motherboard, a 900 mz Athalon "Classic", and a 900mz Athlon "Thunderbird". It looks like the T-Bird won't work on either board, so I tried to use the Classic in each of the other 2 boards. The Tekram does nothing - no beeps, no video. The video slot feels very tight at one end, that may be part of the problem.

So I am down to the Epox & the classic Athlon. This set up appears to boot up ok (lights come on, sees hard drives, memory, etc.) until I get a message saying "Building DMI Pool", then it stops dead. It makes no difference if I use a bootable floppy or not.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

[Rick]

strip it down to nothing But. Video, and floppy drive.
then see if it boots.
if it does Flash the bios with the latest version

[ziradog]

Okay, I tried it with a generic AGP video card, floppy drive, and 256 meg of ram. I got the same result - it sees the floppy & ram, says "Building DMI Pool", then stops. Any other ideas?

[mjc]

Try resetting the BIOS to default values....

[ziradog]

I tried "Load Default Values" and "Load Failsafe Values", with the same results.