This is the first machine that I've ever built, so please bear with me.
I built a box (parts list below), and aside from a couple of minor windows 98 installation problems, the machine ran great. Then weird things started happening. First, I began seeing small pixels flickering on the screen while playing Undying. Then, the machine would lock. When I rebooted it, the machine would post, but not boot all the way back to the desktop; instead, it would get through the post and memory check, spin the hard disk, and then restart yet again. But after a couple runs of that, it booted to the desktop and things ran normally.
Yesterday, however, it went completely to hell. The machine simply restarted in mid-application, and then the bios reset the frequency to 100 mhz. In looking around in the bios, the only thing that I could find wrong was that in the hardware monitor of voltage, the setting that's supposed to be at +3.3 volts was running at about 2.8 or 2.6. Of course, I could not look at the bios long b/c after about 2 secs the screen began flickering, and the machine would do its on/off dance again.
Now, I can't get to the BIOS. I turn on the machine, the hard drive spins, the power and HD LEDs go on and they don't go off. I can't turn the machine off without using the power supply switch in the back. The machine simply will not post.
Has anyone had an experience like this with this board?
Parts:
a7m266
athlon 1ghz 266fsb
128 Crucial ddr 2.5 latency
Creative geforce2 gts 32mb
ibm deskstar 7200, 30gb
Enlight 7370
Premier 300w power supply
I built a box (parts list below), and aside from a couple of minor windows 98 installation problems, the machine ran great. Then weird things started happening. First, I began seeing small pixels flickering on the screen while playing Undying. Then, the machine would lock. When I rebooted it, the machine would post, but not boot all the way back to the desktop; instead, it would get through the post and memory check, spin the hard disk, and then restart yet again. But after a couple runs of that, it booted to the desktop and things ran normally.
Yesterday, however, it went completely to hell. The machine simply restarted in mid-application, and then the bios reset the frequency to 100 mhz. In looking around in the bios, the only thing that I could find wrong was that in the hardware monitor of voltage, the setting that's supposed to be at +3.3 volts was running at about 2.8 or 2.6. Of course, I could not look at the bios long b/c after about 2 secs the screen began flickering, and the machine would do its on/off dance again.
Now, I can't get to the BIOS. I turn on the machine, the hard drive spins, the power and HD LEDs go on and they don't go off. I can't turn the machine off without using the power supply switch in the back. The machine simply will not post.
Has anyone had an experience like this with this board?
Parts:
a7m266
athlon 1ghz 266fsb
128 Crucial ddr 2.5 latency
Creative geforce2 gts 32mb
ibm deskstar 7200, 30gb
Enlight 7370
Premier 300w power supply