A7V Boot failure

[Abomination]

LJOMFUCKHKSHFG!KHKAHL#K*EBJLKH$E&LOHEF@!LODFHNA;OHLIUQH4OUHOIUHWUOIHSHITISUH*KAUHERIH!!!

I can't get my friend's Asus A7V to boot. I tried booting from the floppy and all it says is, (in all caps for some reason)"Invalid system disk, replace disk and press any key."
Then I tried booting from his IBM Darkstar 30.7 Gig HD and it says, "boot disk failure, replace disk and press any key." (this occurs when I set the HD to ATA 66 or ATA 100)
Then I burn a bootable CD and try that and I get the same message I got when I tried to boot from the floppy: (in all caps for some reason)"Invalid system disk, replace disk and press any key."

PLEASE!!! Can someone help me!?

 

[pillage2001]

Bios version? Is it a new board? Have you changed the boot sequence in the BIOS?

 

[Abomination]

I've tried many different settings. When I tried to boot from the floppy, naturally I'd set the floppy to be the first boot device. My other friend has an A7V sitting right next to it and the bios settings are exactly the same but it just won't boot. The board is new, we just bought it yesterday. His hard drive boots perfectly fine in my MSI K7T Pro and the HD cable isn't the problem either because we've already tried swapping those.

There are two possibilities I think:
1) Damaged motherboard
2) Some kind of on board settings that we don't know about which will prevent booting (or something?).

I have no idea, I'm confused, it just won't recognize anything as being bootable.

 

[Stytis]

Reggie, maybe you are just crappy at setting up computers. Maybe you should just take it to my house so I can fix it. And was this after you loaded windows at your house? Hrmmm... sorry dude

 

[pillage2001]

Hehe...Why don't you try to get a replacement for the board and see if it's still acting weird. If it is, then you mgiht have set something wrong.

 

[paulip88]

Take out all the PCI cards. I had a similar problem and rearranging the PCI cards solved the problem. Hope it works for you too.

 

[KouklatheCat]

It has been my experience it works best to build a computer with just the video card in then add the cards later. I have had problems with boot disks and it turned out I just had a bad floppy disk

 

[Abomination]

Great!!! I was gonna try takin everything out next but I ended up just taking the drives out and that didn't work so I forgot about taking out all the PCI cards.

btw: justin (stytis), I didn't understand what you were trying to say so stfu j/k
hehe, it'll be workin by the end of tonight =P

edit: I was gonna try takin everything out except the CPU and vid card

 

[Abomination]

Okay, that's it, who wants to see a motherboard get obliterated into 1000000+ pieces? Well I don't but I sure feel like it right now.I can't get anything to boot on this POS. It can detect the Hard drive, it'll detect the CD-ROM and it'll detect the floppy but it won't boot off any of them. I just tried to boot it with nothing but a CPU (and fan of course), memory, Video card and hard drive and it didn't work. I took everything out of the PCI slots and still it doesn't see a boot record. Then I tried to boot with a floppy and a HD connected and still nothing so I tried to boot with just a floppy and still nothing.

Is it safe to say that this motherboard is from hell? Does anyone have any ideas on how I might be able to fix this?

edit: If I haven't already mentioned this, I already have windows loaded onto the Hard drive and it boots fscking perfectly on my computer but when I put it into the a7v computer, I don't get $]-[!+. just an "Invalid system disk, replace disk and then press any key to continue."

 

[KouklatheCat]

Do any of the drive lights come on and stay on. Im assuiming you have checked all the jumpers. Try booting with just the hard drive, no CD ROM. Are you getting any beeps at POST? You should get just one.

 

[Abomination]

Yep, one beep. I've been trying all kinds of combos with different drives and all, I even tried no vid card... I was just hopin I'd hear the windows start up sound but I didn't get anything heh. I also tried using a PCI vid card... didn't work.

 

[KouklatheCat]

Id take that sucker back to the shop and make them test it. Call ahead and let them know you are coming. They should be able to do it right there and on the spot

 

[Abomination]

Hrm, good idea. We already got one asus board from there and the processor wasn't working at all so we opened it up and something was wrong with the socket (it was cracked heh).

Thanks for your time, I hope they'll just replace the sucker heheh.

 

[KouklatheCat]

Not a problem. Im crossing my fingers for ya that they take it back....

 

[pillage2001]

I'm sure they will change it for you. Is it within 15 days anyway?....or should it be 30 days?

 

[Abomination]

Yea, we got it two days ago.

The guy there is a total asshole. The last mobo he gave us, he told us he was going to test if it booted and he just went in the back (you can barely see what's happening in the back) and grabbed a box with an A7V and a Tbird 900. He didn't even test it or anything. ugh, they'd better look at this and say, "oh, it's screwed, you're right."

 

[KouklatheCat]

I was building a computer for a friends boss. I got SIX, count em SIX motherboards at FRY's electronics before I got one that worked. Can you beleive it SIX motherboards. They had to test each one before they would return it. FINALLY I got smart and made them prove it worked before I left the store with it.