computer freezes at memory count and won't let me into BIOS

[dum]

I installed a motherboard and processor I've had in my closet for about 2 months and I'm getting a weird display when I turn it on. The initial boot screen will come up, but the screen is also half covered with the ascii equivalent of that matrix screensaver. The computer will just sit at this screen and none of the keys do anything. You either have to turn it off or reboot to the same thing.

MSI K7T Master-S
AMD Thunderbird 1.1 (200 Mhz)
Crucial 512MB PC133 (1 stick in slot 1)
ATI Radeon VE

anyone have any ideas?

 

[Zim Hosein]

dum, two suggestions that might help, try a new CMOS battery and make sure you have the latest BIOS, hope this may help 🙂

 

[dum]

i've cleared the CMOS, replaced the battery, tried a different video card and i'm still getting the same problem.

i can tell from what i can see of the screen that the processor and memory are being identified correctly.

AMD Athlon at 1100 MHz (100 MHz x 11.0)
524288 KB RAM (DRAM clock 133 MHz)

the computer won't continue to boot past this so i can't boot from floppy to flash the BIOS and it won't let me into the BIOS to check the settings there. the 4-LED indicator built onto the board shows the system as booting normally according to its codes when it does this.

 

[Cancer12]

Make sure the ram is properly seated, and see if this problem occurs with different ram.

 

[dum]

i tried it again and it wouldn't even POST.

i took everything out and tried running it outside the case....powers up, but no POST.
i took out the memory to see if I would at least get a memory error beep code or the LEDs would let me know that.....nope
i took the video card out to get an error for no display....nope


in all cases it won't POST and the LEDs indicate that nothing is wrong.
i even checked the processor to make sure i had not cracked the core....but it's fine.


methinks i got a bad board.

 

[Cancer12]

Originally posted by: dum


methinks i got a bad board.

methinks your right