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Did I fry my motherboard or is this normal?

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Pioneer:

That's what I'm talkin about bro.

Scott84:

This board is 95% sarcasm, 5% arcade information.

Pioneer:

This is to electricD
"Thanks for the info... I'll check it out closer on my lunch break."

I forgot that the "emoticons" or whatever tell your emotion behind a statement... I'll remember to put a smily face or something next time. ;)

kelemvor:

How far does it get before it "gets stuck"?  Does it start loading windows?  Does it never even get past the initial BIOS screen wher eyou canp ress F1 or F2 or whatever to enter setup?

Have you tried booting from a boot disk or boot CD to see if that matters?

pointdablame:

we really do need more information to help you.

- Did you install an OS yet?
- If yes, did you install the chipset drivers for your motherboard yet?
- Have you ever successfully booted into the OS if you DID install one already?
- If yes, boot into safe mode by tapping F8 as the computer boots up.
- Tell us exactly what the screen says as you go through.  "ATI" could be a video card issue, could be an ONBOARD video issue, or it could simply be a hardware problem.

Your system should also have an onboard speaker of some kind.  During boot-up, the computer goes through the POST process and will beep out error codes if there are any.  Listen for beeping and note the types of beeps (2 short, 1 long, etc etc).  Check your motherboard manual to see what the error code means.  Usually a single beep means it POST'd fine.

Also, you could just clear your CMOS. You may have screwed with something in the BIOS inadvertently (sp?)  There is probably a CMOS jumper on your mobo that you must toggle... then pop the battery out of the board for a few mins.  Replace battery, switch back jumper... boot back up.

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