I just got my Biostar M7NCG motherboard in the mail. I plugged my AMD Athlon 2400+, 512mb of PC3200 DDR Kingston ram, Western Digital 40gig hard drive and cd-rom into the mobo, powered it up and at the Biostar screen it said "boot error, no floppy," (I expected this because I installed on floppy drive) so I went into bios, changed the boot sequence to cd-rom first and left to go get the phone which was ringing. I come back and my screen was black, the lights on my keyboard were out but the fans, hard drive and cd-drive were all still working. My brother said he changed the FSB frequency to 166mhz instead of 100 mhz and that was all, hit save and when the computer rebooted nothing came up. The monitor was still on idle (the led on the front was green instead of yellow, suggesting that it was recieving no input but still recieved some signal that it was plugged in) and the keyboard was not recognized or was not drawing any power. I tried other keyboards and mice, even another monitor cable but I can get no output from the motherboard. The fans still spin, the hard drive and cd-rom both still work. Any ideas on how I can fix this?
Firstly, it has to be said that Biostar arent known for their sterling motherboards To be perfectly honest with you, they're cheap and pretty crappy - you get what you pay for. Saying that, this sounds like something that happens to most people who overclock their CPUs (2400+, as I well know, is meant for a 133MHz FSB. You've put it way too high I think) so try resetting your CMOS to get the settings back to default. There should be a jumper on the board somewhere, near the battery - failing that, actually take the battery out and put it back in before rebooting. If that doesn't work, RMA all the stuff separately so they can't work out exactly what you did
In the words of kameleon, reset the cmos, justs set it to the right fsb speed when you go into the bious next. Instead of making huge jumps from 133 to 166, try 133 to 135, 140 etc to find the best config
