I need help with my motherboard

[naldo]

please help me, im desperate
Well, Finally after saving up my money I Got my new motherboard. Well, it aint working and I need help.

Heres the details:
I install the mobo and everything, triple check all connections, everything seems peachy. I press the power button and it turns on, fans start spinning and I can hear the HDD working, but only for about 2 seconds, then the entire system just cuts off. I start unplugging componenets 1 by 1, trying to see whats wrong. I try running the system outdside of the case, same thing happens, so its not a standoff issue. when only the CPU & vid card are plugged in it stays on (but I get no video, im guessing thats because Im using a PCI video card), when its just CPU and RAM it stays on, but if I try to put in the CPU, the RAM, and the vid card It shuts off. Its not a thermal issue, Im sure of that since the CPU will stay on. I plugged in a speaker and I got no beeps at all regardless of the situation. I tried resetting the CMOS and all that jazz, but it didnt help. I've triple checked all the jumpers ans stuff as well. I know the board is getting power and everything, but I dont know why it just shuts off like that.

heres the specs (the important ones atleast)

motherboard: Biostar M7VIT PRO
CPU: AMD Duron 1200
RAM: 512mb DDR2700 crucial
Video card: ATI Radeon 9000


What could it possibly be? If anyone can help me solve this problem they will be handsomly rewarded.

 

[altonb1]

Actually, it really does sound like a heat issue. I'd pull the heatsink and verify you have proper CPU grease on the chip. Also check to see if this unit has any jumpers that need to be adjusted. I didn't look at the specs of your board, but does it have on-board video? I'm guessing it does not, otherwise you would have tried using it without the card to see if you could at least get through POST.

Otherwise, I'd say you have a bad mobo on your hands.

 

[WarCon]

No beep codes usually mean a non-functioning CPU or motherboard. If all you have connected is the powersupply, motherboard, CPU, memory, video card and speaker and you short the power switch connector on the mobo to start it and you get nothing you are at the place where you have to swap test. If you have a good friend with an AMD system let him test your processor and hes a really good friend he might let you test your setup with his. That should isolate the primary problem. Might also try a different powersupply.

Good luck......

 

[inCreek]

I had a similar experience with an ECS board. The computer will freeze up during BIOS, at different places on different tries. No beeps or any other indications. It went away, when I put some arctic silver compound on the CPU. I did not put it initially because I did not have any handy and I had read in these forums where people had success running a similar speed Celeron CPU without any heat sink. But those CPUs were about 700MHz where as mine was 1100MHz.

So it is a heat issue. Also make sure the heat sink is properly sitting on the processor.

 

[naldo]

I figured out that its just a bad board I have. I went over to my friends house and we tried everything. No matter what I do the board will not boot, but if I put the exact same components into another mobo, everything boots to perfection. Guess I'll be sending it off to get RMA'ed, its the last time I'll buy anything from newegg or biostar.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: naldo
Guess I'll be sending it off to get RMA'ed, its the last time I'll buy anything from newegg or biostar.

Why are you mad at NewEgg? If you went to your local WalMart and bought a bag of potato chips, then got home and found the chips were perfectly sealed but stale, would you swear off shopping at WalMart?

The fact is, you bought a factory sealed mobo from newEgg. The board may have been a POS, or it may have been a fluke with that model of mobo. Regardless, NewEgg probably had the best price or you wouldn't have purchased from them. Their quality packing for their shiped items is far superior to most in the industry, and their RMA process is going to be as painless as any you have ever had.

I bought 1 mobo & CPU from them, and the bad mobo fried the new CPU. Time to RMA. Called, explained the problem, and issued a no-hassle RMA. Ordered a 2nd Mobo/CPU so they could cross-ship, paying for Overnight shipping, and the 2nd mobo had a bad IDE controller. Time to return it, too. Ordered a THIRD mobo, this time a different manufacturer, and NewEgg ate the cost of the overnight shipping for it. I was so impressed with their dedication to Customer Service, I ordered a ti4200 video card from them last week and got it on Wed.

NewEgg is not the problem, You just unfortunately got a bad board. It happens.

EDIT: THIS WAS MY 500TH POST!!!!

 

[naldo]

I called them up and told them I got a bad board and they just told me to fill out the online form and ship it in. They didnt tell me anything about cross-shipping or anything like that. Hopefully they dont send me a bad board this time (cause I really dont want to pay 15% for an error thats not my fault)

 

[Ape]

Did you try to bench test the board? Sett it up outside of the case on a non-conductive surface, with just the CPU, Memory and Video??? The problem could be the case. It might be shorting out in it. I would try this before you RMA. Ape Out.

 

[BmXStuD]

Originally posted by: Ape
Did you try to bench test the board? Sett it up outside of the case on a non-conductive surface, with just the CPU, Memory and Video??? The problem could be the case. It might be shorting out in it. I would try this before you RMA. Ape Out.

try running the system outdside of the case, same thing happens, so its not a standoff issue.

 

[Jeff7]

What is the fan on the CPU? Is it 60mm or 80mm? I had a Soltek board already that would not POST due because I had a low-RPM fan on the CPU - its BIOS thought that the fan was dying, so it would turn on, then turn off right away. I had to plug a 60mm fan into the CPU Fan header, boot the system, disable that safeguard, save and shutdown, and then plug the 80mm fan back in.

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: naldo
I called them up and told them I got a bad board and they just told me to fill out the online form and ship it in. They didnt tell me anything about cross-shipping or anything like that. Hopefully they dont send me a bad board this time (cause I really dont want to pay 15% for an error thats not my fault)

In youyr case, cross-shipping may not have been an option. My cross-ships occurred because I placed braqnd new orders. The new boards were shipped as additional orders, and therefore I actually paid over $250 dollars in funds. My refunds should be issued within the next day or so. They will also waive the restocking fee if the problem is related to faulty components. I'm awaiting a refund for $115 for the 1st mobo/cpu, and then another refund for an additional $52 for the 2nd bad board. Yes, I ended up putting out over $250 total for the first two boards/CPUs (plus the last $53 for the 3rd mobo), but $167 will be refunded.

 

[capricorn]

Originally posted by: naldo
I figured out that its just a bad board I have. I went over to my friends house and we tried everything. No matter what I do the board will not boot, but if I put the exact same components into another mobo, everything boots to perfection. Guess I'll be sending it off to get RMA'ed, its the last time I'll buy anything from newegg or biostar.

Just out of curiousity, when you did this test, did you use the same case and power supply with the other motherboard? My first thought when I read this was "power supply" since it only works with some of the components in different arrangements, but doesn't work if they are all in. If the "other" motherboard was also in another case with another power supply, that could further the power supply theory. If you put the other motherboard in the same case as the motherboard you bought, you've got a pretty sure bet that the new motherboard is either bad or not compatible with the set of components you have.

-cap