motherboard hanging at post

budotiger · 03-04-2008, 01:03 PM

hey guys newbie here and having some problems.

bought a biostar tf 7025 m2 mobo, amd athlon 64 x2 brisbane dual core cpu, 512 mb kingston ram, and 480w psu. put everything together in old emachines case until i can get a new one. powered everything up and mobo is hanging at post screen. post screen just flashes and when i try to enter bios it either does nothing or goes to a blank blue screen. i have tried the ram in all 4 slots, tried cleaning the cpu and heatsink and adding new thermal paste and nothing. i am at my wits end here and ready to just rma everything for a refund and be done.

im thinking ram is bad, but dont know what to do.

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

**manic** · 03-04-2008, 02:23 PM

Is the power supply a standard type of psu, not proprietary? Not
sure if Emachine had a proprietary psu or not. Are you sure the board
is not grounding out on the case? Brass standoffs in place and accounted
for? You didnt mention what type of video you have.

budotiger · 03-04-2008, 04:02 PM

i replaced the psu with an apevia 480 w psu. as far as i can tell its not grounding out anywhere. video is an on board nvidia 7025/630a chipset. i rmaed the ram back to newegg today. going to see if that helps. if not ill try cpu next. then mobo. the emachines case is just until i can get a newer case. nothing left in it is emachines.

03-04-2008, 01:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
budotiger Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3 OS: windows xp sp2	motherboard hanging at post hey guys newbie here and having some problems. bought a biostar tf 7025 m2 mobo, amd athlon 64 x2 brisbane dual core cpu, 512 mb kingston ram, and 480w psu. put everything together in old emachines case until i can get a new one. powered everything up and mobo is hanging at post screen. post screen just flashes and when i try to enter bios it either does nothing or goes to a blank blue screen. i have tried the ram in all 4 slots, tried cleaning the cpu and heatsink and adding new thermal paste and nothing. i am at my wits end here and ready to just rma everything for a refund and be done. im thinking ram is bad, but dont know what to do. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

03-04-2008, 02:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
manic Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 3,543 OS: xp	Re: motherboard hanging at post Is the power supply a standard type of psu, not proprietary? Not sure if Emachine had a proprietary psu or not. Are you sure the board is not grounding out on the case? Brass standoffs in place and accounted for? You didnt mention what type of video you have. __________________

03-04-2008, 04:02 PM	#3 (permalink)
budotiger Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3 OS: windows xp sp2	Re: motherboard hanging at post i replaced the psu with an apevia 480 w psu. as far as i can tell its not grounding out anywhere. video is an on board nvidia 7025/630a chipset. i rmaed the ram back to newegg today. going to see if that helps. if not ill try cpu next. then mobo. the emachines case is just until i can get a newer case. nothing left in it is emachines.