I have an Abit NF7-S mothboard and everything was going smooth after I installed everything. I booted up and went into the bios and then fiddled with some settings, disabled APIC, put ram on turbo, put power button on 4 second delay, etc. I then saved them and rebooted. The bios was saved ok and the motherboard detected my IDE devices and then started to ask for a boot disk to load windows. Seeing as I have no Operating system I shutoff my computer with the power switch. I then rebooted and my bois just hung at detecting IDE devices, it detects my 512mb ram but never gets past that. I tried unplugging and replugging my IDE devices to no avail. It won't get any further and I can't get into my bios by pressing del. I tried resetting my cmos and that doesn't work at all. Is there anything else you guys would recommend in order to reawaken my mother board or does it sound like I need to RMA it? Could there be another possible problem?
P.S. I think I installed everything correctly, heatsink, connections etc. I checked my temps when my bios was working and they were running around 38C which I think is pretty good.
One other question. If my processor fried (which I think is doubtful) is there any physical signs on the processor itself that would indicate it was damaged due to not installing a heatsink right? I am a total newbie.
P.S. I think I installed everything correctly, heatsink, connections etc. I checked my temps when my bios was working and they were running around 38C which I think is pretty good.
One other question. If my processor fried (which I think is doubtful) is there any physical signs on the processor itself that would indicate it was damaged due to not installing a heatsink right? I am a total newbie.
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