Mobo BIOS and local mobo availability

[JonP382]

Recently I bought a new PC as my Dell 4700 wasn't cutting it and my 6600 GT died. Unfortunately I think I made a mistake in my MOBO, but not sure. I bought a Foxconn A7GM mobo for AM2+ and stuck an Athlon X2 4850e in and 2 gigs of Gskill DDR2 RAM. It worked alright, but my sound was messed up. I used Foxconn's own update utility to update BIOS and etc and now all I get when I turn on my PC is a black screen and I can't even open my optical drive! I've made sure everything is plugged in, and it is. I've tried VGA and DVI on both my onboard and my ASUS Radeon HD 4670.

Is there a way to fix this? Or will I have to go get another mobo? And where could I get them? Circuit City, Staples, Wal-Mart etc. don't seem to stock them. If it helps I live in the Baltimore area. All I need is a cheap mobo that WORKS - doesn't need to be all fancy.

 

[nerp]

Sup, sorry to hear you're having these problems.

When you say your sound was "messed up" what do you mean? Was it garbled/crackly? Or did it just "not work?"

Have you tried resetting the CMOS? Switch the jumper on the motherboard and wait a few minutes. Sometimes, after a BIOS flash, resetting the CMOS is necessary. I had a heck of a time with my beloved IP35-E after a recent bios flash when I didn't reset the CMOS. Things were acting CRAZY for a couple days.

Did you unplug the PC from the wall and plug it back in?

Did the BIOS utility indicate it successfully flashed? Are you 100 percent sure you used the right BIOS to flash?

 

[JonP382]

The sound would get mostly get crackly, especially when looking at a youtube video, so I went ahead and updated with the Foxconn Live utility, it said it was successful and that I had to restart. Never started after that. I assume it was the right BIOS, as that's what the Foxconn Utility indicated, as well as Foxconn's website. Updating on my Dell was never this painful lol. I updated the Bios on that at least 10 times.

I've done lots of plugging already including what you suggested, it didn't help.

I'm not sure what the CMOS jumper is, forgive my newbieness. I'll look into it.

 

[JonP382]

Well, I unplugged everything from the back, put the jumpers on CLR_CMOS, plugged it in, turned it on, and got nothing but a black screen. Turned it off, unplugged everything from the back, switched the jumpers to normal, plugged in everything and turned on, and all I got is a black screen.

I've done what my user manual says and this is basically the same thing -

http://home.att.net/~gobruen/hw/bios.html