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Boot problem, bad board?

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MoSuaveA

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When I shut down, or restart and then reboot the system, it gets to the point where its about to jump into windows, and the screen turns off and says video error. I then shut down, reboot, and the fans run, but the hdd doesnt initalize or anything. After some time it just decides it wants to work again, but there is no pattern, something that makes it works once, doesnt make it work the next time. I have tried just about everything, swapped ram, swapped vid cards, swapped power supplies, swapped cpus, rebuilt the entire system, bought a new lithium battery(as the clock kept losing time when it did start)same thing. The only thing I havent swapped yet is a mother board, and thus I have come to the conclusion that this is the reason for my troubles. I have a MSI K7T Pro mother board, and the leds stay red when the boot problems occur, the manual isnt too clear on problems when this happens, they say its either the lithium or the cpu, nothing to do with the board. A side note, When I pull the IDE cable from the board, the HDD powers up, but when the boot problem occurs it doesnt. Also, once the computer does start up, it runs smooth but seems to chew up sysytem resources very fast, and I don't have anything really running, also the clock loses time. So is it safe to say the board is bad or is there something else I could try? I know this is kinda long, but wanted to give as much detail as possible, and information would be appreciated. Thanks

Rich
 
Have you tried clearing the CMOS? I had a similar problem with an old pentium I had and that did the trick.
 
I had a similar wierdness on an old system. It fixed itself for a while and when it started again, I swapped out the battery. Slightly different wierdness but similar. I cleared the CMOS and its been working ever since. Maybe you could be lucky and its an easy fix like this.
 
Would the taking out the battery and clearing the CMOS via the jumpers have the same effect? If so, im nto going to powerdown and try it, im using the system now, and I dont want to power down and have to mess with it until it decides it wants to cooperate again, unless someone has a good idea?
 
removing the battery would have the exact same effect. BUT putting the battery in CAN/MIGHT do other things in the process. I've gotten into the habit of always clearing the CMOS for any battery change.
 
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