- Nov 24, 2001
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System:
MSI K8N Neo Platinum socket 754 nforce3-250 mboard
AMD 64bit 3000 cpu
1 Gb Geil RAM
Hercules 128MB 6800SE AIW gfx
DVDRW
CDRW
Four IDE hard drives, various sizes/makes. Two on primary IDE and two on a RAID PCI card (NOT used as RAID just extra IDE ports).
PSU - was 400W GoldenPower - swapped with same make but now 480W.
Problem:
Began a week ago when system suddenly lost power and no longer switched on. Tried swapping PSU but no difference (Both PSUs checked with a tester and they worked okay). K8N Neo mboard, CPU and RAM bought at same time and less than 2 months old. Prior to this had been working fine (temps 45 to 55 ish).
RMAd the board - installed new board yesterday.
System now powers up - BIOS detects all drives, RAID card detects drives correctly.
However when it tried to boot from the hard drive I got (and still get) a
TRAP 00000005 =========== EXCEPTION=================
tr=0028 cr0=80000011 cr2=00000000 cr3 =00039000
gdt limit=03ff base=0003f000 idt limit=07ff base =0003f400
cs:eip=0008:0041e977 ss:esp=0010:00060e50 errcode=0000
flags=00010086 NoCy NoZr InitDis Down TrapDis
eax=FFFFFFFF ebx=00000000 ecx=FFFFFFFF edx=0000204A ds=0010 es=0010
edi=00437EC8 esi=00000000 ebp=00060ECC cr0=800000011 fs=0030 gs=0000
and the system freezes.
Tried to boot from XP PRO CD to try repair but this gets as far as Setup is inspecting your system and the screen then blanks and nothing else happens - hard drive led is on, screen power is on but otherwise no signs of life and the system sits there doing nothing. Tried other copies of CD with same effect.
If I try to use the Recovery Console (I can get to the boot menu from my hardrive which has this as an option) it again locks up with a Please Wait message.
I cannot load ANY kind of OS from CD - a windows 98 CDROM locks up as soon as I choose any startup option (from ANY optical drive).
I can run as simple dos startup disk to an A: prompt but that is all. I cannot get any startup disk with the ramdrive options to work (locks up) and so cannot flash the bios to a later version.
have tried a NTFSfloppy disk to try to read drives - this also blanks as it loads.
I have tried:
removing the PCI RAID card,
using only a single hard drive - and combinations of same
no hard drives!
only one optical drive
different IDE cables
failsafe bios settings
I cannot flash the bios to a later version (as stated before) as I had a vague hope this might help.
Have I just got another duff motherboard, could the CPU be at fault (could it have been affected when the first motherbaord failed????).
i have never come across anything like it before.
TRAP exception error messages - I can find nothing of use about them - the only microsoft reference I can find is to trap 000006 (which Ive also had) which it states is due to a corrupt ntldr. If its only that then why cant I load xp setup from cd or 98 for that matter???
Im at my wits end - am I back to rma'ing this board again (plus its a bank holiday weekend in UK so cannot get any help from supplier until then).
HELP PLEASE.......
MSI K8N Neo Platinum socket 754 nforce3-250 mboard
AMD 64bit 3000 cpu
1 Gb Geil RAM
Hercules 128MB 6800SE AIW gfx
DVDRW
CDRW
Four IDE hard drives, various sizes/makes. Two on primary IDE and two on a RAID PCI card (NOT used as RAID just extra IDE ports).
PSU - was 400W GoldenPower - swapped with same make but now 480W.
Problem:
Began a week ago when system suddenly lost power and no longer switched on. Tried swapping PSU but no difference (Both PSUs checked with a tester and they worked okay). K8N Neo mboard, CPU and RAM bought at same time and less than 2 months old. Prior to this had been working fine (temps 45 to 55 ish).
RMAd the board - installed new board yesterday.
System now powers up - BIOS detects all drives, RAID card detects drives correctly.
However when it tried to boot from the hard drive I got (and still get) a
TRAP 00000005 =========== EXCEPTION=================
tr=0028 cr0=80000011 cr2=00000000 cr3 =00039000
gdt limit=03ff base=0003f000 idt limit=07ff base =0003f400
cs:eip=0008:0041e977 ss:esp=0010:00060e50 errcode=0000
flags=00010086 NoCy NoZr InitDis Down TrapDis
eax=FFFFFFFF ebx=00000000 ecx=FFFFFFFF edx=0000204A ds=0010 es=0010
edi=00437EC8 esi=00000000 ebp=00060ECC cr0=800000011 fs=0030 gs=0000
and the system freezes.
Tried to boot from XP PRO CD to try repair but this gets as far as Setup is inspecting your system and the screen then blanks and nothing else happens - hard drive led is on, screen power is on but otherwise no signs of life and the system sits there doing nothing. Tried other copies of CD with same effect.
If I try to use the Recovery Console (I can get to the boot menu from my hardrive which has this as an option) it again locks up with a Please Wait message.
I cannot load ANY kind of OS from CD - a windows 98 CDROM locks up as soon as I choose any startup option (from ANY optical drive).
I can run as simple dos startup disk to an A: prompt but that is all. I cannot get any startup disk with the ramdrive options to work (locks up) and so cannot flash the bios to a later version.
have tried a NTFSfloppy disk to try to read drives - this also blanks as it loads.
I have tried:
removing the PCI RAID card,
using only a single hard drive - and combinations of same
no hard drives!
only one optical drive
different IDE cables
failsafe bios settings
I cannot flash the bios to a later version (as stated before) as I had a vague hope this might help.
Have I just got another duff motherboard, could the CPU be at fault (could it have been affected when the first motherbaord failed????).
i have never come across anything like it before.
TRAP exception error messages - I can find nothing of use about them - the only microsoft reference I can find is to trap 000006 (which Ive also had) which it states is due to a corrupt ntldr. If its only that then why cant I load xp setup from cd or 98 for that matter???
Im at my wits end - am I back to rma'ing this board again (plus its a bank holiday weekend in UK so cannot get any help from supplier until then).
HELP PLEASE.......