PCI and IRQ problem...HELP!

[Haervii]

Well, I built my first computer ever and I have everything installed. However, whenb I boot, it shows the intial screen, telling me to press delete to get into Bios, and telling me my IDE devices, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then it gives me a blank screen witha little DOS cursor. My handy-dandy DLED on my K7T pro2 mobo says that the code it shows means "assigning IRQs to PCI devices". It gives no explanation as to what it might be if it hangs there like that, except 3 asterisks that mean the motherboard might be damaged. However, I am optomisitic, because according to the DLED decoder, assingning IRQs to PCI devices is the last step before the operating system boots, therefore it has done a lot of stuff already that it wouldn't be able to do if it was damaged. Also, it got past this step fine before I put in the hard drive, cdrom and pci devices(SB live and ethernet card) Any ideas on what my problem is/what I should do? Thanks.

 

[Haervii]

Help! It won't boot!

 

[AlanShearer]

Try clearing your CMOS and booting. Also try any boot with the minimum of cards in. (remove sound cards, Nics - in fact video card only is best)

Ideally with a new motherboard you should do a clean installation of Windoze as well

 

[Haervii]

How do I do a clean install of Window when all I can get is the BIOS? And how do I clear the CMOS?

 

[slurp]

Take out all your cards but the video, and boot from there. Add each card one at a time, and you should be able to find out what your problem is. Try different slots for the problem card. Do your clean install after you have solved your boot problem.

 

[Herr Yunta]

Pull the green jumper off of JBAT1 near the CMOS backup battery (with the power off) and reboot. Move the SB Live to another slot