Hello all,

I have strange issue with QDI Titanium I B+ Socket 7 motherboard. Which I guess I created...

I was trying to see if I can fit different cooler on CPU, while it was powered down of course, but since I used ATX and not AT power plug on motherboard it was partially powered on. I touched something and it powered on, but seemed to work fine.

Now comes the strange part. It's not working fine. First issue I noticed was when it booted into Win98 and keyboard and mouse seemed to not work. To cut long story short, keyboard works until I move the mouse, then both stop working/reacting. Computer itself is not frozen, cursor key blinks normally i.e. notepad. In DOS mouse doesn't "kill" stuff, probably because I don't have DOS mouse driver so it's not initialized.

Second issue I noticed was when I attempted to flash firmware, it would freeze when trying to save current BIOS to file, or when I tried to flash new BIOS. Board still "worked fine", so it didn't actually erased it. Originally I had MMX 233 installed so I tried MMX 166, same story, unless I downclock it to 100 MHz, in this case saving BIOS to file worked fine but again hanged when trying to flash.

Anyone experienced something similar? What to start checking? Something to do with power, maybe?