MSI Neo2 Boot Hangs

[bluearchtop]

Hi, I have a Neo2/P4 combo that has been working fine for about 3 weeks. This morning Windows XP crashed and now it won't boot back up. The bios hangs for like 5 minutes after checking the hard drives.

I've gone into the bios and reloaded the setup defaults. Same problem. Does this sound like a hardware problem? What can I do to help determine where the problem is?

I don't think it is a software problem because it never even makes it to the "starting windows" section.

 

[Dman877]

Sounds like a dead hard drive, you got a spare to try with?

 

[bluearchtop]

Yeah, I actually have 4 hard drives in the machine. Pulled all out but one, still just hangs.. Hmm.... Pulled out all cards but my video too... Any other suggestions?

What's really frustrating is I have to wait about 10 min before I can even get into the BIOS. It just sits there doing nothing

 

[bluearchtop]

If I pull all hard drives I get the same problem too... Not sure what to try next. Does it sound like a mobo problem?

 

[Markfw]

Memory ? Whats the rest of the config ? Take out al but one memory stick ? reset cmos ? And leave all the hard drives out, and change the bios to boot from floppy. Put in a win98 boot floppy and what happens ?

 

[jdogg707]

I have this happen in my K8T800 Neo board and have yet to find a solution to it. I have cleared the CMOS, tried flshing the BIOS, etc. and nothing works. My only resolution was to set everything to factory default. It still gives me an error message, but allows for me to boot. I have yet to try hooking the drives up to the Promise controller and seeing whether or not that will work.