New build won't boot, booted twice.. now nothing.. please help

[djheater]

I just built a system with the following components:

CHAINTECH MBAV-MK8T890 Socket 754 VIA K8T890 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

CHAINTECH SE6600G Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card -

Thermaltake Silent PurePower TT-420AD(DUAL FAN) ATX 420W Power Supply - Retail

GeIL Value 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual

Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM

AMD Sempron 64 3000+ Palermo 800MHz FSB Socket 754 Processor Model SDA3000BXBOX - Retail


The RAM is not the GeIL but is the same specs from my previous system, I also am using the DVD+RW from my previous system, the sound card and a 150G IDE drive

Here's the history.

I carefully assembled the system and booted. It came up and I entered BIOS to check everything. I disabled floppy seek and onboard sound and set the SATA as the primary boot device in BIOS. I rebooted and put the XP disc in. XP setup came up and stop at the blank drive. I told XP setup to partition and it partitioned it RAW, it then said it needed to write data to the 150 gig drive for setup... I didn't like this so I exited setup and shutdown the machine. I put in a BartPE disc, (based off the XP preinstallation environment) and used the GUI to format the SATA drive NTFS. I shutdown the machine from the BART GUI and then tried to boot.

The machine will not boot. It hangs in POST and does not give any error tones and does not display any video. I have done the following:
disconnected the SATA drive
disconnected all drives
removed a stick of RAM
Swapped single RAM sticks
disconnected Sound card
Reset CMOS

all witht the same result... The system powers on and the fans spin but it never POST's or gives any display.

I'm mad because it DID post twice but now when I'm ready to install nothing happens... It finished the format without error, I shut down and now it will not boot.

Any ideas?.. did I miss anything?.. My best guess is that the shutdown fried the MB.. I don't think it's the vid card, because it never completes POST....

GRRR... I so do not want to deal with RMA's

TIA

 

[djheater]

Oh Great....

Just read this at Newegg... :|

ArchieJughead, 8/13/2005 5:02:49 PM
Tiny and good
Got this mobo for my new PC after deciding to downsize from my previous, massive gaming case. I wanted socket 754 for the low price and PCI Express for future upgradability, and this fit the bill nicely. The only issue I have is that when powering down through Windows, the computer is unable to boot after shutdown unless the power supply switch itself is flipped off and then on. Not sure if this is the motherboard specifically, but I've heard of faulty mobo capacitors causing similar problems, so this makes me suspect its overall quality. As is, it's merely an annoyance and doesn't affect the performance in Windows.

Be back after I try that... gotta swap systems now..

 

[djheater]

Well that worked once... It booted... went into BIOS and setup drive order and disabled floppy seek again... rebooted into XP setup, and XP still wants to write data to the second drive and (the real issue) wants to format it, maybe because it's reading as a dynamic volume..??..
Decided I'd disconnect that hard drive and try adding it later after setting up the OS... exited XP setup shut off power and disconencted the IDE storage drive. tried to boot and it's back to not posting.... :|

It's like the PSU needs to discharge?

 

[djheater]

One user of the same board reported that he RMA'd and got one that worked without this problem... so that's what I'm going to do.. unless I find a better solution...