Head-In-Gas-Oven-Worthy Boot Problem!

[NoLifer]

Here's another one of those "boot problems" for you! Any help would be much appreciated! Or.. the words "head", "gas oven" and "stick in" come to mind..

I've just changed my system to a P4 'northwood' 1.6, Abit BD7 Mboard, Enermax 350w power supply, and another 512meg of DDR for the new Mboard.

All was going well until I tried to boot up.. and my problem is this-

- On post it completes, until halting at error code 52 (on that little counter thing), but the bios on-screen says 'Memory test ok'. Then nothing happens. It doesn't boot further, and when I press Del to get into setup it doesn't work either!

I don't get any funny beep-codes, just the normal one beep, but the HD light is on all the time. (And before you ask.. my wires are in the right places)

Eeek, if someone doesn't help, could you at least point me in the way of the most painless suicide technique? Damn these computer things..

Ally

 

[bruincal]

your BIOS might be stalled trying to detect the drives ... check the jumper settings for the drives? ... you might wanna double check any jumper settings on the motherboard and in the BIOS settings...

 

[NoLifer]

Hi,

Thanks for the input.. this is becoming a beast of a problem, but I can't even get into the BIOS to change anything, it's like the compy locks up after the memory test, before it gets to- "assigning resources or detecting and installing IDE devices" (number 75 on the board counter, says the manual).

We're stopping before we can enter the CMOS by pressing delete.. ugh. And I've checked the jumpers on the drives, they're all OK.. eek.

Hope you guys can help!

Ally

 

[DaiShan]

try clearing cmos, then I would substitute in known working RAM, then cpu, see if either of those fix the problem.

 

[daveshel]

If you and access the BIOS but not change anything, check for something like an unused standoff shorting a trace on the underside of the motherboard. This is actually more common than you might think.