Mobo fried?

[stoner529]

i attached a midi cable to my sound card, then realized the computer had restarted and was frozen at the intial boot screen and it didnt make it past the "memory test" section. i cleared cmos, all it does now is turn on and the screen displays the microstar international screen and thats it. i disconnected all drives as well and anything that wasnt a necessity. whats your opinion.

 

[Tmagic650]

The hard drive boot sector may be corrupted

 

[stoner529]

The hard drive boot sector may be corrupted

well i took out the hard drive and it did the same thing. is the boot sector on the mobo?

 

[Tmagic650]

Try resetting the motherboards bios to the default settings

 

[neill1973]

I would also check to make sure that you don't have bad RAM.

 

[stoner529]

Try resetting the motherboards bios to the default settings

i have now done this correctly. in the bios, when i have it set to auto detect the hard drives, nothing comes up. is this the issue you refer to on the boot sector.

i believe the problem is fixed. i managed to get it to start from the system disk. it loaded things back in. and i took it out, and restarted. it seems to recognize the hard drives now as well. it started up. so i am putting it back together and hopefully we will see how it goes. thanks guys.

 

[stoner529]

my new issue is at startup. sometimes it "hangs" or i dont give it enought time perhaps, at the screen where it detects all the ram cards and the drives installs, other time it works and gets past that. i did scandisk and it still does this. what should i try now?

 

[Tmagic650]

Download and install your hard drive's test software from it manufacturers support website and check the drive(s) for errors that way

 

[stoner529]

Download and install your hard drive's test software from it manufacturers support website and check the drive(s) for errors that way

well i did this and ran the check. the checks came back clean. i have restarted the computer twice after these checks and didnt have a problem as of yet. so maybe it is solved. good help guys!