mobo acting up

[chipy]

my main computer will post but won't go any further than that. it is an MSI nforce2 motherboard. it reads the processor and memory and goes to the point where it says "press del" for BIOS or "F11" for boot options. i can see them but it won't do anything when i press those buttons.

any suggestions?

btw, i cleared the CMOS with the jumper.

thanx
chipy

 

[boomerang]

Have you tried a different keyboard?

 

[chipy]

no,

but regardless of the keyboard, the motherboard should proceed to boot right? i didn't have anything set in the BIOS telling it to halt on any errors.

chipy

 

[boomerang]

Yeah, I guess I focused on it not responding to keyboard presses.

Is it detecting drives? It sounds as if it's hanging at that point.

 

[lenjack]

Why blame the mobo?

 

[framerateuk]

I had that problem on a ECS Intel BX board (with a P2-450). It ran the post, but went to a black screen and didnt say "loading windows 98".

I switched the hard drive for another one and it worked fine then. To this day the HD that wouldnt boot still works fine in my main PC, the odd thing was, at the time, even formatting it didnt help it get past the POST screen.

 

[wpshooter]

Have you attempted to update the BIOS with the latest version ?

Will it boot perhaps to either a bootable floppy and a bootable CD ?

 

[chipy]

thanx for the replies. i didn't attempt to upgrade the bios and i didn't try another hdd, though now that you mention it i should have tried that. well, i just ended up RMAing it to MSI since ZipZoomFly don't take RMAs past the first 30 days after purchase.

thanx to everyone.

chipy