Problems with GA-7V1XH+

[SpiffyGuy]

My coworker has brought in his computer that is having problems and he asked me to fix it. The machine posts and you can get into the BIOS but it won't boot off the HDD or the CD. I have even put in a different HDD and it wouldn't even boot from that. I checked all the jumper settings and IDE channel settings in the BIOS. The machine will just freeze on the system config page. BIOS is seeing the CD and HDD. I am thinking that the board is hosed. Any ideas?

CPU AMD 1800+
Crappy ATI vid card
256MB ram

Thanks

 

[tjaisv]

I'd try a different board in there with the same cpu, see what happens. If it boots, then the old board is probably at fault somewhere. If it still doesn't boot then take the cpu out and put in another cpu. If it then boots, then it's probably the cpu that's at fault. If it still doesn't boot, then maybe the power supply is bad.

 

[SpiffyGuy]

Well we were just trying to figure out if there was anything that we could do here at work. I am just plain out of ideas on this thing.

 

[Gravity]

Swap out the ram. Also are you running the board at the default bus speed? Sometimes the higher speed busses won't work at first.

Gravity