Hello,

midway during installation of Windows XP on my Intel D815EPEA2 the installation freeze and I unplugged the PSU.

Now I am getting a garbled image during post.

The setup was as follows

1.2 Ghz Tualatin

384 mb SDram (256+128)

Radeon 9550 Agp

80 Gb IDE HDD

I tried to troubleshoot;

If I put a ram stick into slot 1 or 3 I get a black screen, with 2 blinks of three leds on the ps2 keyboard, with the ram in the 2. slot I get the garbled image with three blinks of the three leds on the keyboard.

I tried a known working Coppermine 733 mhz with the same results.

Tried another working PSU, with the same results.

Tried a known working PCI Voodoo 3 2000 again same results.

The cpus are getting warm, so something is happening.

I am about to recap the whole board and wanted to ask if any of you encountered something like this, before I waste time with a possibly unsalvagable motherboard.