problem, possibly mobo

Modoman · 01-21-2006, 06:24 PM

well, i restarted my computer today. nothing fancy, just restart the computer from windows, changed absolutely nothing. upon restart, it froze at the post screen. it will detect the cpu, then it does nothing from then on... i checked the capacitors on the board, all are ok... everything is fine hardware-wise as far as memory, cpu, hdd's, drives, etc. the only 2 things i can think of that might be causing this out-of-the-blue problem are possibly my psu or my keyboard port. my keyboards caps, number, and scroll lock lights dont flash at startup now, but im not sure if they ever did... how can i figure this problem out? it came from nowhere, as my computer was PERFECT before trying to simply restart it. i reset the cmos and same thing still happens.. ????

ps i do have an extra psu so i can switch that out but id like to figure out if the ports may be bad for my keyboard, as i have an extra keyboard but it failed to start up using it

also ill add that the award bios has the default setting of halting only on keyboard error... never experienced a halt so maybe this is what is happening

Modoman · 01-21-2006, 07:02 PM

ok i figured out it was a bad usb device that was causing the halt. that saved me a huge headache

**Praetor** · 01-23-2006, 08:51 AM

Curious: what kind of device?

01-21-2006, 06:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Modoman Platinum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 553	problem, possibly mobo well, i restarted my computer today. nothing fancy, just restart the computer from windows, changed absolutely nothing. upon restart, it froze at the post screen. it will detect the cpu, then it does nothing from then on... i checked the capacitors on the board, all are ok... everything is fine hardware-wise as far as memory, cpu, hdd's, drives, etc. the only 2 things i can think of that might be causing this out-of-the-blue problem are possibly my psu or my keyboard port. my keyboards caps, number, and scroll lock lights dont flash at startup now, but im not sure if they ever did... how can i figure this problem out? it came from nowhere, as my computer was PERFECT before trying to simply restart it. i reset the cmos and same thing still happens.. ???? ps i do have an extra psu so i can switch that out but id like to figure out if the ports may be bad for my keyboard, as i have an extra keyboard but it failed to start up using it also ill add that the award bios has the default setting of halting only on keyboard error... never experienced a halt so maybe this is what is happening __________________ X2 3800+ Toledo @ 2.0GHz w/ Zalman 9500 2GB OCZ DC EL Plat. 2-3-2-5 2T MSI K8N-Neo4 2 x WD 36GB SATA Raptors eVga 7800GT @ 470/1200 FSP AX500-A 500w Last edited by Modoman; 01-21-2006 at 06:33 PM.

01-21-2006, 07:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
Modoman Platinum Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 553	ok i figured out it was a bad usb device that was causing the halt. that saved me a huge headache __________________ X2 3800+ Toledo @ 2.0GHz w/ Zalman 9500 2GB OCZ DC EL Plat. 2-3-2-5 2T MSI K8N-Neo4 2 x WD 36GB SATA Raptors eVga 7800GT @ 470/1200 FSP AX500-A 500w

01-23-2006, 08:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
Praetor Administrator Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 24 Posts: 19,943	Curious: what kind of device? __________________ ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, Q6600@3.7 / ASUS P5ND, E6400@3.8 4GB OCz Platinum XTC 8500 / 4GB CorsairXMS2 6400 5x500GB Seagate 7200.10 / 2x500 Seagate 7200.10 OCz 8800GTX 768MB @ 630/800 / 2x Galaxy 8800GT SLI

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