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Problems with computer rebuild...

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RS3RS

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Hey all. Yesterday I finally got my order from newegg, a black Chieftec case and a new Abit IS7-E motherboard. I stripped my main rig (in my signature) down, mounted the new motherboard in the new case, and moved everything over. I was wearing an electrostatic wrist band the whole time, and the table was covered with anti-static bags...

So I hook it up, turn it on, and it startes to boot into Windows. BSOD. No big deal, Windows is usually screwed up after you change motherboards anyway. I do a recovery install, now it's even worse... So I delete the current partitions, create a new NTFS partition, and install from scratch... Now, it will get to the Windows logo with the little progress bar thing under it, and the screen just goes black... There's still power, although the hard drives have kicked off... I try clearing CMOS, no go... So I reinstall again... Same thing... Tried a different CD and CD drive, same thing...

I've checked everything I can think of... Any help at all would be appreciated. I'm using my laptop at the moment...

Here are full system specs:

P4 2.66BghZ CPU
768mb RAM (1x 256, 1x 512) pc2700
Abit IS7-E Mobo
GeForce4 ti4200
Older PCI graphic card to power a smaller third monitor
Seagate 120gb 7200RPM IDE hard drive
WD 13gb IDE backup hard drive
Sony CD burner
NEC DVD burner
Floppy drive
Chieftec case

Thanks everyone :(
 
Have you tryed running 1 stick of memory at a time? I see you have a 256mb and a 512 stick. One of them may not play nice with your abit board.

My second guess would be to take out that second PCI graphic card and try booting up and see what you get. If that doesn't work you most likely received a bad motherboard, in that case you could of probably figured that one out hehe :)
 
Hmm, well, I just tried one stick at a time, and one video card at a time... Same problem. I'm going to guess the mobo may be bad... I hope not, though, because I kind of had to put a different CPU HSF holder thing on there to work with my current HSF, and in the process I think I broke the original plastic HSF holder thing (not sure what it's called)... So they might not take it back for RMA (or would they?)

Looks like I might be screwed :eek: :(
 
Update:

Okay, after hours of playing around with it, I remembered hearing something about there being a bug with the audio or something on the IS7 boards... So I went into the BIOS and disabled it, and boom, it's running perfect. :)

However, I don't want to have to go out and buy a sound card to use for audio... Is this a problem with the whole IS7 series motherboards (ie, should I RMA it?)

How about a BIOS flash? Do you think that would do anything?

Thanks...
 
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