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Paul wrote:
> In article <%FUWc.1654$6h6.105281@twister.southeast.rr.com>, NBK
> <die@spammer.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I have an ASUS P4B533-E, Leadtek GeForce 3 Ti-200, Audigy 1, Maxtor 40Gb
>>HDD, FDD and Samsung DVD/CD-RW.
>>
>>Everytime i try to boot some of the POST info becomes garbled with
>>strange characters. I will not boot from a Linux or Windows XP CD. It
>>just hangs.
>>
>>I have reset the CMOS to no avail. Checked all connections. Do i need
>>to RMA it or is there something i overlooked.
>>
>>Thanks
>>NBK
>
>
> Just about anything could be busted.
>
> It could be a bad power supply (a weak rail). If the POST screens
> become garbled consistently each time, then that probably isn't the
> problem, as a power problem would make for more random corruption.
>
> It could be a bad BIOS flash chip. Some of them get "bit rot",
> where some of the bits in the flash chip get corrupted. Reflashing
> the BIOS would fix it, but of course that depends on whether the
> POST sequence lasts long enough for you to boot DOS from a floppy.
> Alternately, you could get a replacement flash chip from badflash.com
> or from Asus.
>
> It might be bad memory, depending on how far into the POST sequence
> it gets.
>
> You may need to simplify your configuration and unplug anything
> you don't need, to get it started. Reduce yourself to one stick
> of ram, maybe a floppy drive for running memtest86 or flashing the
> BIOS. Although the symptoms don't really point at the video card,
> try another one if you've got one (I'm assuming the processor
> renders characters into the frame buffer, and the video card
> doesn't actually do that itself. Not really sure if, while in
> the BIOS, the video card is considered to be just a bit map for
> the processor to draw into or not.)
>
> Paul
I swapped out everything and still no joy. I am going to try to RMA
this Mobo back to ASUS.
Thanks
NBK
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