sThis will be a longwinded post, but I want to be clear and thorough in the problem. Please bear with me and I apologize in advance for the length.
I have been building a new system that has me pulling my hair out. I have been over everything about a dozen times, and cannot figure out what is wrong. The system would not reboot. It would POST just fine, but when trying to reset BIOS, I hit F10 and the powers goes off and on, then no reboot. There is no post or anything. All the fans are spinning and everything seems to power up, then NOTHING! The hard drive is brand new and when I try to load an OS, it gets as far as having to restart and then just does nothing. no post, nothing. OS has never been fully installed and system has never been fully up and running.
I figured I would upgrade the BIOS, and now I have NO mouse, NO Keyboard and when the system starts, it posts and runs thru detection and now gives me a checksum error and tells me to hit F1, which I cannot do without a keyboard.
Here is the system
AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (brand new)
Linksys wireless router, and NIC and Linksys cable modem (brand new)
Sky7hawk 420W power supply (working pull)
Gigabyte GA-7nnxp (brand new)
http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard...ts_GA-7NNXP.htm
Western Digital 120GB Hard Drive (brand new)
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=27
Kingston 512 DDR400 (two) (brand new)
http://www.valueram.com/config/part...VR400X64C25/512
PNY GeForceFX 5200 Ultra graphics card (working pull)
http://www.pny.com/products/verto/g...x/5200ultra.asp
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum EX (working pull)
http://www.americas.creative.com/pr...asp?product=132
Floppy, DVD, CD RW (all working pulls)
I have carefuly checked, and there are no broken or bent pins anywhere and all cable, ribbons and jumpers are correct. I have checked and rechecked... well everything seems to be fine. The system posts and all info on graphics card, RAM, HD, CD, DVD.. etc. I showing on the screen. But the system would 'halt on reboot', and I had to manually turn the system off and back on... which prohibited me from changing the advanced BIOS settings, and installing an OS. I am thinking there is a 'halt on' setting in the BIOS that is keeping it from rebooting properly, but now I cannot change the settings.
Bcuz I upgraded the BIOS, and.... well, now I have NO mouse or Keyboard.
Please help.....
Thanks in advance,
KarenMarie