I just got done building my new pc and it worked fine, formatted the drive, and started downloading updates/drivers and than all of a sudden I got the blue screen of death, and before I could read what the problem was the computer rebooted and their was no post, the hardrives spin, and all the fans work still have power but nothing else. i am pretty sure that it deals with the software part/driver. as I was trying to load my leadtek drivers and it locked up, restarted that and loaded some Asus drivers and that is when it went down. setup is AMD 64 3800+ Asus A8n SLI deluxe, corsair twinx1024 pc3200c2 1GB Leadtek px7300gt WD corsair 250GB sata I am at a lost, I can not even get the bios screen. I do have the correct power, but it just won't post, no beeps to even tell if their is an error. Did the mobo or CPU crash? it is not overclocked yet.
the only thing i can suggest is to remove everything besides the power, mobo, mem, and gfx, and see if you can get to bios then. if not then one of the remaining parts has a fault. do you have another pc to trest faults with?
You install the drivers in COMPLETELY the wrong order, it may have caused damaged to the board if Windows tried to interpret information incorrectly. Try what was said before, are there any lights on the board?
I pulled all the components off, besides the basic mem, graphics, and still no post, DougEdey, their is only a power LED. I just installed Windows SP2, and was going through the hardware list to see what windows didn't like or recognize, and was working on loading the rest of the Asus drivers, like they recommended in their manual. since the graphics card drivers CD, kept locking up, I pulled the cd. and was dealing with just the asus drivers. I don't have another pc that I can swap parts with, I run an older MSI/AMD XP 1800+ with a AGP graphics card.
Have you tried resetting the CMOS? And what you should do is the chipset drivers first, then the rest of the motherboard drivers, the graphics ones next, then any peripherals.
I tried resetting the cmos, when I first got the hard drive formatted, I installed the ethernet drivers, the chipset drivers.first after that I installed sp2. than I was installing some of the extra items off the cd
hmm, the way you installed the drivers is kinda odd?! generally its mobo+chipset>add in cards, perhaps installing some of the extra drivers sent it on a wobley?! what was the last thing you installed before this incident?? i dont know what you've managed to do espcially since it wont post. The only thing i can recommend is that you return the mobo under its warranty and tell them its faulty, they should swap it for you, when you recieve the new mobo then be sure that you set your BIOS correctly, and that you install in the right order.
havent heard/experienced anything about installing drivers in a wrong order making a mess. maybe its the cpu temperature?
right now I get a long beep and 2 short beeps, when swapping memory sticks and pulling one out. my manual doesn't say anything on beep codes, the page is blank
1 long beep and 2 short beeps means video card error, this can be a fault in the video card, or a fault with the motherboard communicating with it. Which is why your system wont start up (you can't see it)
Try removing your gfx card and then booting. You should be able to tell from hdd activity whether it is booting into Windows or not.
still no post with no graphics card, HDD spin up and than quit. with no memory, I get the 1 long and 2 short.
well shipped the pc off with my buddy who works as a pc tech for a college, so he has all the test equipement, and all the spare test parts, gfx card, memory, PS. and should be able to narrow it down to what exactly the problem is, so if the mobo is dead, I can RMA it. Thanks for the help, I just don't have the parts here to start testing/swapping. again thanks for the help everybody. *update* Mobo is dead, pos. should have read a little more into the reviews, lots of DOA boards coming from them. nothing I did to cause it, the bios and everything is wiped out, it corrupted itself.
I'd still go ASUS because every manufacturer has some flops in the batch, and ASUS is a great manufacturer.
4years ago I tried to run Asus, but it crashed within the first week, and it was the motherboard. I read alot in the pc mags about this A8N-SLI deluxe, so I tried it, and it crashed on me. I have read a lot of bad things on Asus, I just can't wait for mobo's to ship back and forth if they are not gonna work. I understand bad batches from time to time but, on newegg. their are a lot of DOA's. it doesn't set well with me.
Just to clarify some stuff. If you don't know what your talking about, you shouldn't be giving advice. Seriously guys, installing drivers in the wrong order giving him no POST? Thats not even possible. The worst it would do is make it unrecognizable to windows, which starts after the post.
Sounds like you got unlucky - Asus have had some problems with QC, but recently the word is a big improvement. They're still good mobo's, and certainly more reliable than DFI's.
I have seen cases where OS' have incorrectly communicated with hardware when the drivers are not installed correctly, this caused problems and required a new BIOS chip.
