Replacing motherboard

[RockGuitarDude]

To make a long story short:

I built my sister a PC a few years ago and it worked fine until her boyfriend flashed the bios and screwed it up (erasing the bios). I bought a new board (Foxconn with a SiS chipset is all they had on newegg) and popped it in. It posts, shows the Foxconn logo and says hit Del for setup... yada yada...

Keyboard powers on (can put on num lock etc) but the del key does nothing. Tried several keyboards, made sure nothing was shorting, etc.

Could it just be a bad mobo? This is the first time that I think I've gotten a bad part and it worked at all.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Did you try F8 for Safe Mode boot?

Windows can get angry and give you the silent treatment if you feed it the wrong motherboard drivers.

 

[AmberClad]

Are you using a USB keyboard? Try using a PS/2 keyboard or stick the USB-to-PS/2 adapter on it and give that a try if that's the case.

 

[RockGuitarDude]

Thanks for the input thus far.

Using PS/2 keyboard, can't get to the point where I can safe mode boot. It hangs on the Foxconn logo.

 

[dfuze]

Were all the keyboards you tried PS2? Maybe the port is bad.

You could try using an Ubuntu live cd and see if your current keyboard responds with that.

 

[Blain]

Why didn't you buy a new BIOS chip from Foxconn or BadFlash?

BTW, Why isn't the "boyfriend" doing this work? :roll:

 

[KGB]

Originally posted by: RockGuitarDude
To make a long story short:

I built my sister a PC a few years ago and it worked fine until her boyfriend flashed the bios and screwed it up (erasing the bios). I bought a new board (Foxconn with a SiS chipset is all they had on newegg) and popped it in. It posts, shows the Foxconn logo and says hit Del for setup... yada yada...

Keyboard powers on (can put on num lock etc) but the del key does nothing. Tried several keyboards, made sure nothing was shorting, etc.

Could it just be a bad mobo? This is the first time that I think I've gotten a bad part and it worked at all.

As an outside chance, did the new MB arrive with the CLR CMOS jumper in the CLR position instead of the RUN position?