Bios Freeze

EliteEmerz

EliteEmerz

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I have an Aopen AX45-V. It has a P4 1.6 in it, which i've had work before, yet when i remounted the board in a new case, it freezes during the boot. It does the ram check, then stops, it doesnt even go into checking the IDE drives. Everything is unhooked except the board to the PSU, with a video card and ram in it. I tried a new PSU, and different ram sticks, but always the same result. Any suggestions?
 
You could try clearing the cmos by first removing the battery from the board followed by a quick jump back and forth with the jumper. It sounds like a little bit of the bios programming has a small glitch causing the locks you are seeing.
 
i would consider remounting the board and maybe use some insulating washers on the standoffs as i believe that the motherboad may be grounding out on the case :)
 
So it even messes up without any drives? Ugh, I don't want to call it fried just yet but I can't think of anything else to try!
 
can you get hold of a new bios chip for the board, if so i would try to get one and change the bios chip on your board
 
Humm, I have the same problem on a 3700 after my power supply gave out a bad burning smell, I then shut it down, replaced the power supply and the same screen no burning smell., I figure cpu or motherboard blown. I have already switched everything, I mean everything back over to my xp2200. Any way to elimate cpu or motherboard without replacing?
 
if anything i would say that its caused by the motherboard... its very rare (from what ive seen) for a CPU to burn out... bear in mind that the motherboard controls all the voltages and has all the power circuitry on it, its more than likely that the problem is located here.
however, dont take my word for gospel as its possible that the motherbaord has died and taken the CPU with it.
 
I've seen where an overheated cpu acted up and took the board along with it. When someone else couldn't wait to upgrade his case with the same cpu his board went as well. That was before the cause was known and he rushed into it. So don't rule out the cpu too soon. One question remaining would be if you heard a beep at powerup? If it was a single beep that would be normal.
 
single beep, in my case don't remember, what would that indicate? Depending on how my warrenty policies are handled, I may have to reassemble the 3700 and guess which is bad. Hopefully not both
 
A single short beep would indicate a normal post. If you heard anything other then that you would have to refer to an audio error code chart to see which hardware was at fault. On your board it will most likely turn out to be the chipset itself is the problem. When you remounted the board something may have seen arc causing damage there or something simply let go causing a short to ground. That would pull current right down.
 
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