Of course this might be a silly question, but have you tried setting
everything in the bios to defaults? or even disabling everything?
Is it a new m/b? I had one once which caused me so many problems. It was a
second hand one, and eventually I had to set everything completely wrong for
it to work. My only guess with that particular one is that someone must have
altered some jumpers at one time or another for reasons unknown to me, but
as I didn't have a manual, it was just a case of trial and error 24/7 for a
number of days. Once I got the settings right, however, it worked well.
Good luck
Michele Sayer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Buckhalter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 7:29 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Motherboard problems


> Hello everyone. I am new to the list. I started a project yesterday to
build
> a new desktop using some spare parts from my old machine and an AMD Athlon
> XP 2000+(model 8) and a Biostar M7VIW motherboard. I'm have tried using 2
> different hard drives, a quantum bigfoot 3gb and a maxtor 8gb. I'm using
> 256mb PC100 SDRAM and a Diamond Viper V770 32mb graphics adapter. Well, I
> know the old harware works, because I have it up and running in an older
> machine now. I suspect that the motherboard was DOA from newegg.com It
won't
> boot from any drive. The troubleshooting section in the manual says I
should
> make sure the CMOS settings are correct, but it won't let me into setup. I
> press DEL to go to setup and I get a cursor in the upper left corner and
it
> just sits there. If I plug in a floppy drive, it will show me the hardware
> monitor info and then say "verifying DMI pool data........." and then it
> will just sit there. It does detect all the IDE devices though. Do I have
> something set wrong or is the motherboard defective(or both)? I am happy
to
> provide any other info that would be helpful. I tried clearing CMOS and
that
> didn't help either. Please help, thank you.
>
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