Poll: How did your BP6 die?

[DieselMan]

Mine just stopped working all of a sudden. Nothing overclocked (366@366 & default voltage).

Unplugged all my cards, left the video card in, kept one Dimm in, and one cpu. Even took the mobo out of the case to make sure there was nothing shorted. Try to power it on a few hundred times (yes 100's), but nada; blank with no beep. Clear the CMOS; nothing happened. Finally, tried another Power Supply; booted up fine, worked for an hour, then froze. Then same problem (blank & no boot) happened again with this other power supply. Played around again, with the other dimm, the other cpu, switch back to the other power supply, and after half an hour of clearing the cmos and powering on/off the system, boom, screen came back, cpu booted straight to Windows... But mobo again froze after a couple of hours. I consider the mobo dead (unless someone knows for sure what the problem could be).

How did your BP6 die?

 

[Julios]

i had a similar problem way back - would only boot once every 50 tries - screwed up my directx also - i think it was CIH... (chernobyl)

everytime i tried to use an application that called upon directx functions, i'd get errors.

fixed it after a couple formats and cmos resets


edit: this wasn't the same mother board u had - it was an asus p2l947 lx chipset if i remember correctly

 

[DieselMan]

Thanks for sharing. My problem is definitely hardware related, not O/S; when the mobo doesn't "boot", it just won't turn on at all (can't even see the bios boot screen).

 

[Julios]

yes - same thing here - cept i got these beeps - i looked up the beep codes on a bios faq, and the funny thing was - the beep patterns i was getting didn't correspond to any known pattern.

 

[DieselMan]

Ok, I'll look into this CIH virus over the weekend. Anything is possible Thanks.

 

[bonkers325]

cih bwuahhhhhhhhhh good luck

 

[dethman]

mine's still workin' with a cel850 in there. but just barely.

 

[DieselMan]

Did you need to use one of those Powerleap slockets in order to get the right voltage on a celeron II?

 

[TrackMan]

I had a bp6, first problem was with the udma 66 controllers. when my HD was hooked up to teh primary udma66 my windows registry kept getting corrupted, and had random reboots when accessing hd. figured, it was a compatibility problem btween hd and controller, moved hd to primary udma 33 controller, problem solved. after a couple weeks the floppy disk stopped working, thought it was the floppy drive, and didn't worry because i never use it anyway. then, every time i started computer my hd would make a grinding niose, finally wouldn't boot. switched to secondary udma33 controller, no grinding or refusal to boot for a couple of days, then same problem. I rma'd the hd, checked w/ a working floppy drive, and found it was the floppy controller that was not working. i consider the mobo dead, and am looking to replace it w/ a reliable one.

all this was running w/ 96 megs pc 100 ram, 433 celeron @ 433 mhz, no overclocking. very dissapointed with the quality of the board, never had bought abit before and am worried about ever doing it again after all the things i've heard about this board.

 

[WoundedWallet]

Mine hasn't died yet but I'm about to put it in retirement as my server.

Did you pull all the cards, mems and cpus out? Dust it off and replace just the basic? Maybe tried a different video card?

I had a similar problem recently when the board kept beeping non-stop. I started taking evertything off one by one, including the memory and video card. The board only stoped screaming after I took off the cpus sprayed with air and replaced them.

I know you've pulled everything off already, but maybe you forgot to dust it off before you put the stuff back in. Or try with a new video card.

 

[DieselMan]

WoundedWallet, thanks for your suggestion; yeah, I did dust if off
Could it really be a CIH virus? but doesn't the CIH virus just corrupt the bios? Mine, as I said, will actually boot up and work properly every 200 times I boot it up or so (well, it's more complicated; I have to remove everything, including cpu, dimm, and video, and then reassemble with just these 3 things - 200 times)... then I would freeze within minutes. I also checked the cpu, dimm, power supply, and video card on a couple of systems and they work!