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So I'm building a comp for my brother, get everything all hooked up, plug it in and boot up. Boots fine, until it gets to "Press DEl key to enter setup". I press Del, says its entering setup, and sits there. Re-boot, gets to same screen, and if it sits for more than 2-3 secs and I hit Del, its already frozen. but occording to the POST beep everything boots fine......
Never had this problem before.... been trying to figure it out for 2 hours now =/
Clear the CMOS to reset the BIOS.
Tried, still nothin. Possibly the HD ?
Disconnected everything except video card (no onboard video), Stick of RAM, and keyboard... same thing..... hmmmm DDR2 standard on the board is PC5300, he bought a stick of kbyte PC4200 for it.. therein may lie the problem ?
What are the basic parts (motherboard, processor, how many sticks of memory and if more than one are they the same type, graphics card, hard drive and whether it's PATA or SATA)?
What error does it give when you just leave it to run through the boot-up process?
MB - http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16813131578
CPU - http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16819116197
Ram - One stick of K-Byte 1Gb PC2 DDR2 PC4200 - picked up at bestbuy bleh
Graphics Card - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102505
HD - He's using a Maxtor 80gig 7200 rpm PATA hd
Does nothing when I let it run, have left it at "Entering setup......" for over 20mins and nothin.
Edit: Oh, and the PSU is http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817182009
Which OS are you trying to install on it? The motherboard only supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003 server, XP(64 bit), and 2003 server (64 bit).
Which OS are you trying to install on it? The motherboard only supports Windows 2000, XP, 2003 server, XP(64 bit), and 2003 server (64 bit).
XP home, but havent been able to get that far yet, doesnt pick up the cd rom/floppy/HDD on boot, and cannot get into bios to set time/HD's/boot order.
Xantium
05-03-06, 12:55 PM
Try reflashing the bios, or I'd probly just return the thing if I could.
After moving the memory stick to each of the four memory slots to make sure it won't boot from any of them, I think it'd be about time to remove and reseat everything.
Make sure you installed the case's motherboard spacers correctly, make sure there aren't any bent pins on the motherboard's LGA775 socket, make sure no easy, simple things have been skipped/overlooked, etc., and reset the BIOS once more but leave the jumper in the 'reset' position for more than a few seconds (move the jumper, check everything, move the jumper back to the normal position).
Still nothing. I had some trouble installing the heatsink fan, wondering if i pressed down too hard and maybe damaged something. Have a email to asus tech in Q but nothing from them yet.... Thanks for the help so far, if you think of anything else please let me know.
I've run into a similar issue before (my first build using a SATA hard drive). Do you happen to have an IDE drive you could use for a test?
Mine wasn't recognizing the drive, so the BIOS was apparently locked in the 'searching for drive' mode and was never able to get to the enter bios step. I swapped out a known good IDE drive and was able to enter the BIOS at that point.
Ean
Oh, since he got the RAM from best buy.. they may be willing to let him swap a stick of something better on their bench to see if that is the issue. Not a guarantee but I have had some pretty good customer service from them when I was miles from home and had no ether connection in my hotel... They let my hook my laptop up to their network to send some important business spreadsheets... saved my ass.
As it turns out, it was a grounding issue. Took the board out of the case and put it on the static bag it came in and it booted right up. Had to go buy some better standoffs then what came with it and it works just fine now.