Motherboard dead? A7N8X-E Deluxe

[iXi]

Well I got my A7N8X-E Deluxe plus some other parts yesterday so I
decided to put it together. Everything went smooth until I turned it
on. It would load like normal (didn't change bios too much since
there didn't seem to be a big need). Once it went boot up the OS it
would pop-up some blue error msg and restart without me pressing
anything. It went by too fast to actually read (tried getting a cam.
to record the error msg..still too fast. So I could read a word at
most at time so I gave up. Starting to work with he bios, and
nothing. After that my whole mobo just died. It would make hdd
noises, fans would go on, sounds like its loaded, but no monitor
action. I tried reseting the bios/cmos with the jumper, no dice.
Tried taking it apart and putting it back together minus the hs/cpu.
Still didn't work. Thought it might be the PS but everything seems to
be running. Don't think its grounding issues or anything else. Any
ideas? dud. mobo?


A7N8X-E Deluxe
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
2x256 PC3200 CORSAIR (XMS Series)
Geforce 3 Ti400
Santa Cruz : Turtle Beach
Jet 7 Coolmaster Heatsink

 

[Dave C.]

Well I got my A7N8X-E Deluxe plus some other parts yesterday so I
decided to put it together. Everything went smooth until I turned it
on. It would load like normal (didn't change bios too much since
there didn't seem to be a big need). Once it went boot up the OS it
would pop-up some blue error msg and restart without me pressing
anything. It went by too fast to actually read (tried getting a cam.
to record the error msg..still too fast. So I could read a word at
most at time so I gave up. Starting to work with he bios, and
nothing. After that my whole mobo just died. It would make hdd
noises, fans would go on, sounds like its loaded, but no monitor
action. I tried reseting the bios/cmos with the jumper, no dice.
Tried taking it apart and putting it back together minus the hs/cpu.
Still didn't work. Thought it might be the PS but everything seems to
be running. Don't think its grounding issues or anything else. Any
ideas? dud. mobo?


A7N8X-E Deluxe
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
2x256 PC3200 CORSAIR (XMS Series)
Geforce 3 Ti400
Santa Cruz : Turtle Beach
Jet 7 Coolmaster Heatsink

Load default settings in BIOS. You DID format the hard drive,
IGHT?!? -Dave

 

[iXi]

Is it really required to reformat it? I can't reset the bios to
default..that's my problem.

 

[Dave C.]

Is it really required to reformat it? I can't reset the bios to
default..that's my problem.

Did you try unplugging the motherboard and then shorting pins 2-3 of the
"CLRTC1" jumper? If so, what happened? And yes, you must format your hard
drive any time you change motherboards, unless you are replacing a defective
motherboard with the same make/model. There are ways that you can try to
"cheat", but they are unlikely to work and very likely to cause you so many
headaches that you will wish you'd formatted the hard drive in the first
place. -Dave

 

[iXi]

Yea I did that...didn't work thats what has me stumped.

Still dead so it seems.

However if I do get it to work, thanks for the tip on the HDD.

 

[villin]

iXiwrote:
Well I got my A7N8X-E Deluxe plus some other parts yesterday so I
decided to put it together. Everything went smooth until I turned it
on. It would load like normal (didn't change bios too much since
there didn't seem to be a big need). Once it went boot up the OS it
would pop-up some blue error msg and restart without me pressing
anything. It went by too fast to actually read (tried getting a cam.
to record the error msg..still too fast. So I could read a word at
most at time so I gave up. Starting to work with he bios, and
nothing. After that my whole mobo just died. It would make hdd
noises, fans would go on, sounds like its loaded, but no monitor
action. I tried reseting the bios/cmos with the jumper, no dice.
Tried taking it apart and putting it back together minus the hs/cpu.
Still didn't work. Thought it might be the PS but everything seems to
be running. Don't think its grounding issues or anything else. Any
ideas? dud. mobo?

 

[Last Boy Scout]

I would remove the Sound Card and then reset the BIOS. You may have
to remove the batttery to truly reset it all the way. That is what my
A7N8X manual said to do. The see if it will work. You could have had
something drastically set too high and it burned up something. Often
with XP you get error messages. Quite often it is from incompatible
RAM. Asus motherboards dislike faulty RAM. Corsair is usually quite
a good RAM choice for this motherboard so it is probably something
like the CPU overheating or something else. I would check the
alignment on the CPU Cooler.

 

[William W. Plummer]

Remove *all* boards except a display board and a memory -- see the manual
for allowed configurations. Discharge the CMOS with power completely
disconnected (not just the switch off). Add back boards, one-by-one.