Motherboard will not boot or post

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:20

Hi I have an MSI P67A-GD55 motherboard and all of a sudden it refuses to boot or display the bios. It constantly reboots in a loop and will not enter or display a bios. I have tried different ram, graphics card, and power supply but it still responds in the same way. I even took it out of my case and placed it on a cardboard box to make sure the case is not shorting it. Does anyone think it is dead and beyond saving or some other problem I have overlooked?

stulid · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:27

Try this,

Take the RAM out.

Power up.

Power off.

Take one stick of ram and place it in the slot furthest away from the CPU.

Power up, anything?

If not, power off and move one slot closer and repeat moving closer to the CPU everytime.

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:41

stulid said:
Try this,

Take the RAM out.

Power up.

Power off.

Take one stick of ram and place it in the slot furthest away from the CPU.

Power up, anything?

If not, power off and move one slot closer and repeat moving closer to the CPU everytime.

Ok thats great it boots up but then says that cpu or ram has changed and whether i wish to setup or use default. After selecting an option it doesn't do anything though?

stulid · 13 Oct 2011 at 14:50

Go into the BIOS and load the defaults.

Then set the boot order to how you had it (if you changed it?) and if you set the SATA controller that a SSD might be plugged into to AHCI instead of IDE, then change that also.

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:04

Bios wont load

only that message will appear. Then when I select an option a small cursor will come up on a black screen and then nothing happens.

stulid · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:11

So as soon as you press the power button, are you hitting the DEL key (if thats what it is?) to enter the BIOS as many times as you can?

alchemistkevin · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:24

Phill4321 said:
Bios wont load only that message will appear. Then when I select an option a small cursor will come up on a black screen and then nothing happens.

What message? that CPU & RAM have changed?

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:40

stulid said:
So as soon as you press the power button, are you hitting the DEL key (if thats what it is?) to enter the BIOS as many times as you can?

Yeah I have tried that but bios will not display.

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:41

alchemistkevin said:
What message? that CPU & RAM have changed?

Yeah the message about a change to the cpu or ram. Thats the first thing to display. Then when i select an option it just seems to go to a blank screen with a small cursor and not do anything. Its all that will display from the motherboard. The bios does not even show itself, only that message. I will put a youtube video up, to show the problem.

alchemistkevin · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:51

You should still be able to get into the BIOS, have you tried pressing DEL or F2?

Try it after a cold boot as opposed to CTRL+ALT+DEL

alchemistkevin · 13 Oct 2011 at 15:57

The other thing you can try is a CMOS reset. That should definitely clear that message if it's a POST message (as opposed to an OS that's trying to startup)

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:15

alchemistkevin said:
You should still be able to get into the BIOS, have you tried pressing DEL or F2?

Try it after a cold boot as opposed to CTRL+ALT+DEL

Tried DEL and F2 but nothing happens. not sure what you mean by the CTRL=ALT=DEL sorry. I've not got a hard drive hooked up yet. I'm just trying to get the motherboard to start for now.

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:16

alchemistkevin said:
The other thing you can try is a CMOS reset. That should definitely clear that message if it's a POST message (as opposed to an OS that's trying to startup)

When you say CMOS reset. Do you mean removing the battery and then putting it back in say after 30 mins?

stulid · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:19

Phill4321 said:
When you say CMOS reset. Do you mean removing the battery and then putting it back in say after 30 mins?

Yes (with the power off at the wall) but isnt there a ClearCMOS button on the motherboard?

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:30

stulid said:
Yes (with the power off at the wall) but isnt there a ClearCMOS button on the motherboard?

There probably is, I'll have a look now

Surveyor · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:43

Make sure you haven't accidently pressed the OC Genie button on the motherboard.

Surveyor · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:44

stulid said:
Yes (with the power off at the wall) but isnt there a ClearCMOS button on the motherboard?

It's on the I/O panel next to the optical audio connector.

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:49

Surveyor said:
Make sure you haven't accidently pressed the OC Genie button on the motherboard.

No thats definitely off.

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:50

Surveyor said:
It's on the I/O panel next to the optical audio connector.

Yeh I found it, but pressing it makes no difference.

Phill4321 · 13 Oct 2011 at 16:56

I've just put a quick video of the message that displays on to youtube. Sorry about it being blurry, it was taken with my phone and thats the best quality I could get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J_6vKOgo5s