mangocrazy
Italian V-twin nutjob
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I have a 10 year old PC that has Win XP/Win 7/Ubuntu all selected from the GRUB menu. A couple of months ago it just died completely. I tried CMOS resets, removing RAM in stages, removing video and sound cards, disconnecting HDD and optical drives, all to see if something was inhibiting boot up. Motherboard was an ATX Biostar TA790GX, with an AMD Phenom II AM2+ processor. Nothing worked. Power supply was fine, it started up and fans worked when shorting out the two power on pins.
So to prove if the motherboard was toast or not, I bought a new Biostar mobo of the same era (mATX), a TA780GM2+ and replaced the existing one with it. Now the PC will boot up, fans run, and I can get into the BIOS and change settings. The BIOS recognises the HDDs and optical drives and allows me to change boot priority etc. However when it comes to boot up, the PC hangs at the point where it would boot up from HDD, optical or USB. I've tried setting various options as the primary boot target but none work. It always hangs up at the same point. What is stopping boot up completing?
So to prove if the motherboard was toast or not, I bought a new Biostar mobo of the same era (mATX), a TA780GM2+ and replaced the existing one with it. Now the PC will boot up, fans run, and I can get into the BIOS and change settings. The BIOS recognises the HDDs and optical drives and allows me to change boot priority etc. However when it comes to boot up, the PC hangs at the point where it would boot up from HDD, optical or USB. I've tried setting various options as the primary boot target but none work. It always hangs up at the same point. What is stopping boot up completing?