Windows killed my mobo?

[Guest]

I got a new MSI-K7T PRO2-A motherboard yesterday. I got it to work fine without a hard disk. Today I installed the hard disk. The hard disk had on it old installation of NT & Win95. When it booted I chose Win95 just to see if it would work. It did, after a few error messages. I tried to boot to MS-DOS, and after that the mobo started claiming (D-LEDs) that the on-board memory is faulty. I changed the memory, it still claims the same thing.

Did Windows95 just kill my AMD mobo???!?!?!?

I've resetted the CMOS, I have even removed the back-up battery, I have changed the DIMM location. Nothing works, it just flashes the leds and beeps. If I remover the memory totally, it will just flash the leds.

 

[Grizely1]

did you try reformatting and putting on a newer OS like Win98SE or WinME?

 

[Guest]

Can't do that, the mobo is dead, finito. Only thing it is willing to do is flashing the "D-LEDs" that are on the mobo, saying that "Defective on-board memory". It doesn't even send a signal to monitor. (The memory was ok for the first 24h. I also tried a new DIMM.)


Was it just coincidence that it died when I was using for the first time win95 system from a disk taken from an intel machine? The hard disk had NT and Win95 on it, and I booted (out of curiosity) to Win95 (with errors) and I then tried the "restart in MS-DOS mode", and in that boot the mobo died.

The DIMMs are new, I can check them on Monday on another machine.

Curiosity killed the mobo? *grin*

Maybe the timing was just perfect but not related to win95 😛

 

[Grizely1]

Well you can try getting another Mobo, and if it still don't work just return it