motherboard problems :(

[darkmavis]

anyone here know of a good place to ask for moterboard problems?  i just bought an  abit an7 for my mame cab,  plugged evreything in, and all i get it acode  90 on the board, i get this even with nothing pluggen into the board.. no beebs or nothing..anyone help?

[the3eyedblindman]

just ask here...I did when i had a motherboard problem  Make sure your jumpers are set right, I had a problem of getting nothing on my screen all because my hard drive didnt have a jumper, how about that!

[darkmavis]

ive tried evreything dude,   really puzzling me.   

the ting that puzzles me most is that i dont get any post beeps even with nothing plugged into the board (cept the memory and power).  never had this kinda prob before, seeing as icant getinto the bios (is completley stock btw, nothing doen to it at all) i cant see if theres a prob.. any ideas?

[Jollyrob1]

Not trying to be rude, but you do have the PC speaker plugged into the board too right?

[darkmavis]

yea sorry, being a noob there i have yep nothing i get nada tis very odd

[DaemonCollector]

The only time I had that one happen to me is when an cap on the board had burst and spilled its gooey innards on the board...I could be wrong, but if you get no POST beeps, and you are positive your speaker is connected properly, than I would have to say you may have a blown board...or I might be overlooking something

[lucindrea]

some of the newer MB's now have a second power input for the cpu , this threw me a loop once as i didnt even think to look for it .. EVERYTHING on the board came up , fans , leds , etc , just never posted , turned out to be that their was this 8 pin power connection i never noticed ( didnt help that it was colored the same as the mb ! ) , pluged a 8 pin plug on the power supply ( new power supplies have these also , like the mb people and the case people acctully talk to each other ) , cpu got it's power and everything was fine.

[Sephroth57]

www.helponthe.net

best technical help website out there for computers

[Reaper]

is it a brand new board? - on some AMD boards there is a "P4" power connector seperate to the ATX connector, make sure that is plugged in, also have you tried resetting the cmos? - there should be a jumper on the board to do this (usually, but not allways near the battery)

You could also try it with different memory if you can.

What processor are you using?

[pointdablame]

- Check that the board isn't shorting out on something (metal under the mobo, standoff in the wrong spot, etc)

- When it powers up, are you getting any signs of life??  Leds?  Fans? Hard drive whir?

- If it's a P4, make sure the extra power plug is in as mentioned above, although the AN7 is an Nforce 2 mobo isn't it??  I may be wrong, but if I'm thinking right, you're running an AthlonXP/Sempron mobo.

- What type of power supply? Would you possibly have another PSU to test with.

I just woke up so that's all I can think of right now lol

[darkmavis]

is it a brand new board? - on some AMD boards there is a "P4" power connector seperate to the ATX connector, make sure that is plugged in, also have you tried resetting the cmos? - there should be a jumper on the board to do this (usually, but not allways near the battery)

You could also try it with different memory if you can.

What processor are you using?

hi dudes, well after ages of faffing around with the board, i took it to my pal who owns a computer shop...  and his suggestion its mofo'd o i know its not shorting coz i had mounted it on plasic feet so there was nothing touching the board,  i tried clearing the cmos all the ways it said in the booklet (even left it for 5 hours without the battery in,  i tested it with another processor (i even tested the 2.8 in my machine at home, worked fine)  he said that this board is plauged with the 90 hang problem, told me to take it back to the supplier and get another, just hope they exchange it!!   its a 2.8 semprom chip, abit   amd mobo btw thanks all for trying to help me out, ill post later to say wether they exchanged or not (only had it a week! knew i shouulda tested it as soon as i got it, bah.)

[RayB]

hi dudes, well after ages of faffing around with the board, i took it to my pal who owns a computer shop...

[Sephroth57]

well technicly the !! in there counts as ending the sentance, but that whole post would still only be 2 sentences.  lol

[darkmavis]

sorry guys.  im dyslexic so my spellin of things and my grammar is terrible . ill try to sort it in future . i got a new board btw,   they just swopped it right over. game on!