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And the problems keep comming.
I rebooted my familys computer today, one that I built about a year and a half ago for them. It just stops at the bios screen. The computer posts, and goes through its whole thing then stops. This is an MSI motherboard with the D-bracket, so the led's tell me what phase it stops in. The board freezes up on the 'detecting floppy drive/controller.' This is really annoying since I have since disconnected the floppy drive... no luck. So I start taking stuff off.
I take peices off one at a time to see if that was the problem... that doesn't help. Right now the computer has everything disconnected except the power cable to the board, the d-bracket cord...ram, fans for the northbridge and cpu, and the cpu. Thats it, there are no drives plugged in and there are no cards plugged in. Anyone know what it might be?
I hate fixing stuff so much. I used to like it, but then when people complain to me all the time about stuff, I just flip out. I am going to trash the whole thing and buy them a cheap dell if i can't get it going tonight. Thanks for any help you can provide / listening to this rant.
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Did you unplug the computer and remove the battery to reset the BIOS to default settings?
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Did you set your BIOs to no floppy drive? Then set your boot order to CD or HD to boot first?
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Originally posted by moxnix:
Did you unplug the computer and remove the battery to reset the BIOS to default settings?
Yes, as for boot order... I don't know, since it never lets me into the bios. CD/HD is the boot order. Floppy wasn't part of it.
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Ok leave only only the video card in (and fans, they don't give POST problem if plugged in) and reset your BIOS. You can either look in your mobo booklet and find the jumper that does this when booted or just pull the battery and the plug, start it up without the battery and see if it can default boot and give you a no OS error.
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Originally posted by maxx_power76:
Did you set your BIOs to no floppy drive?
See if there's a jumper to turn off the FDD controller. Check your IDE drive connections while you're in there. If one of the connectors isn't all the way in, it could be throwing trash data across then entire controller.
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Originally posted by Digital Slacker:
This is an MSI motherboard
Nuff said 
Get Abit, Asus, or a DFI, I've had good luck with all 3 
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So far you're on the right track with trying to solve the problem.
Make sure the board has absolutely nothing connected to it. Just a bare board with CPU, fan/heatsink, memory, and video (unless onboard). Next pull the CMOS battery, unplug the power, wait about 5 mins and put it back in.
Very important thing to do that many many people miss is making sure the hardware is making good connections.
Remove the memory from the slot, and clean the base where it connects to the board. Use compressed air to clean the memory slot as well. Do the same thing for the video card if it is a PCI or AGP.
Also make sure only power connected inside is for the motherboard and nothing else. No drives or anything.
If that does not work, then you will need to look into getting other parts to swap to test such as the CPU, memory and video.
If it does work, then assemble the computer back to how it was but only 1-2 parts at a time to eliminate the bad part.
Good luck.
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Just for giggles, and because you said it was a MSI board, check for blown capcitors or buldging ones on the Motherboard.
This wouldnt happen to be MS-6309 would it?
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Originally posted by XT8088:
Just for giggles, and because you said it was a MSI board, check for blown capcitors or buldging ones on the Motherboard.
This wouldnt happen to be MS-6309 would it?
Wow, I can't believe I missed that. First thing I check when I open a computer for repair.
If any capacitors are shot, you can plan on a new motherboard no matter what.
Unless you got skillz like me and replace the bad capacitors and fix the board. Do it all the time and yet to have a board fail on me.
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