Stuck on BIOS splashscreen, possible problems?

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Okay well my new system was working until yesterday (Friday the 13th, ahem) when it gave up. It's like 3 days old now. Boots fine, but only makes it to the splash screen that shows who makes the mobo (ECS in this case) and then crashes (i assume). I've tried resetting CMOS, re seating video card, and reseating RAM. So i think it is one of these problems:

1. Bad Mobo, would need RMA

2. Bad proc (amd 3400+ OEM) would need RMA

3. Bois gone bad, i know some places will reflash your bios original chip for like $10.

Anyone care to make guesses in which one is most likely?
 
I'd say the motherboard out of those. It would be difficult to corrupt the BIOS chip without something going wrong while flashing it. Since you said you've had it working already it's unlikely to be the processor (I'd suspect bent/broken pins otherwise).

Could try removing everything non-essential and see if that helps.
 
DefineByte said:
I'd say the motherboard out of those. It would be difficult to corrupt the BIOS chip without something going wrong while flashing it. Since you said you've had it working already it's unlikely to be the processor (I'd suspect bent/broken pins otherwise).

Could try removing everything non-essential and see if that helps.
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Wow thanks. I removed all the hard drives and it went into BIOS perfectly. But then no SATA ports would work. Going to RMA it tomorrow :)

cheers
 
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