Motherboard freezes viewing BIOS.

[bupkus]

I have a K7V Dragon Plus that occasionally freezes while working, but now it froze while viewing the bios. This has never happened to me before but I am guessing now it must be a hardware issue. By your experience does it sound like the motherboard, memory, cpu or power supply?

 

[xcript]

I've only ever had this problem with an unstable overclock (not enough voltage on the core, RAM being pushed too far, etc.).

 

[bupkus]

It's an old system that has seen no changes to it's cpu, memory or ps(300W Antec). I'm thinking some electronic component on the mobo is falling below specs or maybe the ps is starting to show its age.

1700+ w/o OC of any kind.
256MB PC2100 DDR (crucial i think)

 

[blizz]

I've had this happen to me in the past and it was the processor fan, thus a heat issue. Check all fans.

Good luck.

 

[lowelo7798]

Originally posted by: blizz
I've had this happen to me in the past and it was the processor fan, thus a heat issue. Check all fans.

Good luck.

Also if its the processor heating is an issue make sure that there is sufficient thermal compound in contact with the CPU and heatsink.

 

[chr6]

if the problem is that you can get into the bios, and it just freezes there; try using a ps/2 kb.

i had an issue similar to this, but oddly enough it was because of my usb wireless kb.

go figure. heh. the heat issues could be it as well. make sure your heatsink is making proper contact, using thermal compound. and try booting without the oc.

gl

 

[bupkus]

Originally posted by: chr6
if the problem is that you can get into the bios, and it just freezes there; try using a ps/2 kb.

i had an issue similar to this, but oddly enough it was because of my usb wireless kb.

go figure. heh. the heat issues could be it as well. make sure your heatsink is making proper contact, using thermal compound. and try booting without the oc.

gl

Oddly enough not too long ago I replaced the PS/2 kb with a USB, but it's not wireless. Good guess, but the reason I went to USB was the person who uses that PC wanted a smaller kb. No OC involved and the CPU has been there for over two years.