Fixed - read this first - Help I cant get into the BIOS of a new TB system. - But can boot.

[The Stigenator]

Guys
I just built a Athlon 1Ghz TB on the following platform.

MSI K7TPRO-2A
A round heat sink with fan in the center. Silver colored
Radeon 64MB
SB Live MP3 5.1
3Com Network card - causing some problem I think - trying to network boot
Firewire Card

I had gone into the bios after my first boot (before adding the additional componenets - sound, nic, firewire). This was just after I built it. Now when I hit delete it just gives me a black screen with a blinking cursor on the upper left.


Anyway help would be great.

I am going to take the cards out first and see if I can get it to boot first.


Edit:

Its posting. Infact it booted to the floppy I had in teh drive.

 

[SXMP]

try clearig cmos.

 

[The Stigenator]

cleared bios twice its a "nogo"

However I can still boot.

I am going to try take the firewire card out now.

 

[interchange]

I think the hard drive doesn't want to boot. If you're just using windows, format a boot floppy with the /s extension from the identical windows version and type sys c: after you boot from it. If all is fine, then you've fixed your problem. I seriously doubt that any hardware is causing troubles in your system. It doesn't make sense for it to make it past bios and prevent you from booting.

 

[The Stigenator]

it would boot to the hard drive if it had a boot on it.
but I cant get into the BIOS.

 

[The Stigenator]

ok went back to basics
I now have the proc, memory, video card .
that is all.


I dont have anything else in there. Its exactly as what it was when I first booted it up to test if everything was alright. That was the only time I went into the bios. Set the date and time and a few more things.

the next time i booted it was with the cards in place.

still an nogo. I have reset the bios several times by the jumper.

 

[The Stigenator]

Fixed

Finally got it to go to the BIOS

Guess what it was.

I had a fan (the one behind the cpu - under the powersupply) connected to the system header (system power supply on the mobo).

For some reason when I took that off it promptly went into the BIOS.

Yes.. now I can go get some dinner.

 

[XeonTux]

did that fan happen to draw more amps than the socket was rated for?