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Rob99 · 11-16-2004, 08:08 PM

Hi, I have this motherboard, and cant get it going.

I have tried a AMD 2600 Sempron and a AMD 2000 Athlon
I have tried a Gigabyte R9700 Pro and a N Videa somthingorother 64Mb
I have tried 512Mb AData DDR400 and 256Mb DDR266 in various slots
I have tried 400W power supply and a 420W power supply(brand new)
I have tried 2 HD's with XP Pro and a HD that I tried to format to install XP fresh
I have tried 3 IDE cables, 2 new and 1 that I know is good
I have tried flicking all the switches on the Mobo and adjusting the FSB in the BIOS
Sata and Raid stuff is disabled
I think thats everything apart from resetting the comos, loading failsafe, setting what I think it should be, and a lot more bios bashing.

The problem is after the computer powers up, goes through the post, detects the drives OK, hangs for a bit then carries on until the Windows Start screen appears. Only lasts 1 or 2 seconds on the Windows Starting screen, then reboots.

I set it to not reboot on errors, the resulting blue screen said HD problems scan it. It has been scanned, as above tried another drive with a working XP install, and tried to install fresh on a third known good HD.

11-16-2004, 08:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rob99 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Christchurch, NZ Posts: 5 OS: XP Pro SP1	GIGABYTE GA-7N400 Pro V2.0 Hi, I have this motherboard, and cant get it going. I have tried a AMD 2600 Sempron and a AMD 2000 Athlon I have tried a Gigabyte R9700 Pro and a N Videa somthingorother 64Mb I have tried 512Mb AData DDR400 and 256Mb DDR266 in various slots I have tried 400W power supply and a 420W power supply(brand new) I have tried 2 HD's with XP Pro and a HD that I tried to format to install XP fresh I have tried 3 IDE cables, 2 new and 1 that I know is good I have tried flicking all the switches on the Mobo and adjusting the FSB in the BIOS Sata and Raid stuff is disabled I think thats everything apart from resetting the comos, loading failsafe, setting what I think it should be, and a lot more bios bashing. The problem is after the computer powers up, goes through the post, detects the drives OK, hangs for a bit then carries on until the Windows Start screen appears. Only lasts 1 or 2 seconds on the Windows Starting screen, then reboots. I set it to not reboot on errors, the resulting blue screen said HD problems scan it. It has been scanned, as above tried another drive with a working XP install, and tried to install fresh on a third known good HD.