Something went horribly wrong

qmacbeth

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I built a new box using the Asus P4P800 motherboard and P4 2.6 GHz processor. Kingston pc4000 hyper x is providing the memory.
So, it was running fine for a few days, then I decided to flash my bios. I did so successfully. A couple hours later, I decide to enable PAT by turning on Memory Acceleration Mode in the bios, as well as attempting a 5 percent overclock, whose settings were calculated by the bios automatically.
I reset the computer, and I get an error saying I need to replace Windows32/system with windows cd bla bla, i've gotten these errors before with unsuccessful overclocks. So I reset my computer, go into the bios to change everything back. Before I could redo the settings, however, my computer just froze. I couldn't move around in the bios anymore. I reset my computer, and now it won't POST!!
Hard drives and cd rom spins, fans all work, but no beeps and nothing received by my monitor. I tried resettings the CMOS, taking the battery out and back in, even reseating all my cards, memory, and processor, but I still get the same result.

What could have gone wrong? Do I need to RMA my new motherboard? I'd rather not. I'm inclined to think this had something to do with my bios flash, but the flash was successful, so ianno. Someone please help, i'm on my last nerve

 

MDE

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Just a word of warning... Asus RMAs are the DEVIL. You wait a week after the get the board for them to send it to you, then you get it a week after they send it out.
 

mechBgon

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Look on page 4-5 of the manual... is the board displaying the "BIOS checksum bad" message? If so, start the system with the support CD in the CD-ROM drive and let it try to revert to the original BIOS. If not, try clearing the CMOS with the system unplugged and then try again. If it still won't work, then it's probably RMA time :(

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