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System won't start up

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neonerd

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I put in my new Athlon XP 2800+ onto an MSI K7N2-Delta2 board, and noticed it was running at 1250MHz. I went into the bios, and saw that the FSB was at 100. I cranked it up to 133, and it recognized the CPU as a 2200+. I went back into the bios, and I think by accident I put set the FSB at 200, rather than 166 which I had meant to set it to. Now the system won't boot up. I tried resetting the bios many different ways. I used the jumper, i took out the battery, i took out the battery and simultaneously used the jumper, i tried to do the two previous things, as well as disconnect the atx power cable, but still get a black screen and it won't boot up.

I have a DLED hooked up, and it tells me that the system is getting stuck on this part of the boot:

Decompressing BIOS image to RAM for fast booting

I appreciate any help 🙂
 
k, well that was a bad guess on my part then 😉 That image is from a different MSI nForce2 board but I was hoping it would apply to yours too. If you have your board's manual, maybe see if they have such a jumper hidden elsewhere? Of course, your BIOS could simply be toast too, in which case one option is to just replace the whole board with another nForce2 board. Another is to get a new BIOS chip that's pre-programmed with the desired BIOS, from http://www.badflash.com (only place I know of but maybe Google could find some others if you want).
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
k, well that was a bad guess on my part then 😉 That image is from a different MSI nForce2 board but I was hoping it would apply to yours too. If you have your board's manual, maybe see if they have such a jumper hidden elsewhere? Of course, your BIOS could simply be toast too, in which case one option is to just replace the whole board with another nForce2 board. Another is to get a new BIOS chip that's pre-programmed with the desired BIOS, from http://www.badflash.com (only place I know of but maybe Google could find some others if you want).
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yeah, i checked, but no jumpers...oh well, guess it's toast. I'll just get a new board. Posted in General hardware for new board reccomendations 🙂

Cheers mechBgon :beer:
 
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