Asus A7V266 not booting.

[powerMarkymark]

My brother has this in his rig, running Win @2K.

For a couple of weeks he was getting random reboots, then it won't boot at all.

No beeps...............nothin. Black screen and constant light activity for hard drive.

System was runnung stock settings.

When it was still running he tested memory with memtest............that was ok.

I thought power supply...........so he pulled that and brought it into the local shop..............tested good.

Pulled the CMOS battery and it tests good.

Reseated all cards and memory ten times.

Has tried a different vid card ............ twice,has the Mobo bit the dust?

 

[powerMarkymark]

Anyone?

 

[imported_tightflks]

did you go to system and uncheck the option to autorestart when error occurs?

i have same motherboard and got same errors

im assuming your using the onboard graphics card? Im not 100% sure if I have fixed the problems, but I THINK i have.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=32&threadid=1308484&enterthread=y

thas the thread where people trying to help me with my problem

heres my setup: latest nforce drivers from http://www.nvidia.com
and driver 30.82 for the graphics card (yes the internal one requires seperate driver)

now, i've only been runnign this set up for like 10 hours, but i looked around the net, and i saw similar errors and they said that gfx card driver works (well they said the beta one did, but i cant find the beta of that version)

so hopefully this set up will work, ill keep you posted if i get problems again

sorry i have an a7n266

 

[powerMarkymark]

Cannot boot system!

No onboard graphics and no onboard sound. Running an Ati All in Wonder vid card.

Anyone else have any ideas.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Bump

 

[Bartokomus]

hi there

reduce your setup to the neccessarie:

memory
cpu
video
mobo

if it boots, we know we've got a bad peripheral.
if it doesn't boot, can we play around with memory order and seating in the slots.
Questions:

-have we done any o/c or config by jumper?
-can we borrow someone elses memory/vids/cpu to test in your system and definitively narrow the problem to the mobo?
-have you checked the thermal paste on the cpu in case it's gone hard or there isn't enough. you could be getting a shut down to prevent overtemp

just some thoughts and questions...

 

[powerMarkymark]

Thanks for the good sugestions/questions Bartokomus.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Disconnected all the drives and CD Roms. No change.


Tried the Ram sticks seperate when it was still booting. Got the same reboot priblem with both.