First post, by treeman
I have had this system built for a few years, haven't touched or changed anything just recently it stopped booting.
The system turns on shows the first screen, detects cpu the energy epa pollution preventer yellow logo fades away like it is about to boot and it stays frozen.
I can enter bios change settings but it never gets past the first screen.
I have 2 hard drives, when I disconnect the slave and only try to boot from the primary it gives me a hard drive error (20) but still doesn't pass the screen.
I disconnected both my hard drives and set the bios to no hard drives at all and it still hangs after the epa pollution preventer logo fades.
I tried different hard drives but it is the same behaviour so it is not a hard drive fault.
Has anybody seen this behaviour on this board before? I suspect maybe the inboard hdd controller died, is that integrated into the chipset?
The rtc battery is good and verified so that is not the issue.
I tried one of my isa controller cards but bios didn't detect any hard drives.
Anyway I have a second Biostar MB-8433UUD-A which I swapped in now but will try to fix the faulty one. Wondering if anybody seen this behaviour before.