I've posted a couple of topics about my mobo problem before. Basically what happens it the machine boots fine for a while, then at some point it just refuses to boot anymore and the mobo is shot.
The 1st board the BIOS chip was hot and fried, 2nd one the same and the 3rd one which the supplier fitted and tested himself, he noticed the IDE chip getting hot as soon as he installed it, this was before he actually put it in the case as well, so the case cannot be causing the problem. Anyway, several reboots later after playing about that board fries too, IDE chip fried, too hot to touch.
Something is causing a feedback of power or something. When the chip was starting to get hot, we only had the board out on the side, not in a case, with only graphics, mem, PSU and processor. The mem is different to the other 2 mobo's and so is the PSU, the only components that are the same are the processor and graphics, could these components cause this problem?
The supplier has taken my whole machine away for testing and to contact the mobo manufacturer to check if it is a bad batch.
I didn;t realise until now that the a chip on the board was actually overheating and frying which is what is causing it to not boot!!!
My supplier has never seen this problem before, and like I say the only components that are being re-used are the processor and graphics.
Also, another strange problem, when he has it all plugged in floppy, DVD Rom and CDRW, the CDRW and DVD were being detected in the BIOS as a drive but the decription was something vedry strange, like a long list of really weird characters. When he removed the floppy drive the CDRW and DVD were being detected OK by the BIOS. When the chip actually fried it was in the case with everything connected, but when it started to get hot it was out of case with minimum items connected.
Can anyone hazard a guess??
The 1st board the BIOS chip was hot and fried, 2nd one the same and the 3rd one which the supplier fitted and tested himself, he noticed the IDE chip getting hot as soon as he installed it, this was before he actually put it in the case as well, so the case cannot be causing the problem. Anyway, several reboots later after playing about that board fries too, IDE chip fried, too hot to touch.
Something is causing a feedback of power or something. When the chip was starting to get hot, we only had the board out on the side, not in a case, with only graphics, mem, PSU and processor. The mem is different to the other 2 mobo's and so is the PSU, the only components that are the same are the processor and graphics, could these components cause this problem?
The supplier has taken my whole machine away for testing and to contact the mobo manufacturer to check if it is a bad batch.
I didn;t realise until now that the a chip on the board was actually overheating and frying which is what is causing it to not boot!!!
My supplier has never seen this problem before, and like I say the only components that are being re-used are the processor and graphics.
Also, another strange problem, when he has it all plugged in floppy, DVD Rom and CDRW, the CDRW and DVD were being detected in the BIOS as a drive but the decription was something vedry strange, like a long list of really weird characters. When he removed the floppy drive the CDRW and DVD were being detected OK by the BIOS. When the chip actually fried it was in the case with everything connected, but when it started to get hot it was out of case with minimum items connected.
Can anyone hazard a guess??