ABIT BF6 What a CRAP!!!

[Carmine_Paterno]

Yesterday, i took my motherboard out of my chasis. I put it on one of my tables, and hooked everything up, so it was not in the chasis. I powered it up and had to reset the cmos as usual. Booted up and everything ok....now i put it back in the chasis. I reset the cmos and nothing. This happened to me the first day i got it. I got it for free, and the kid said something was definetly wrong with it. But i ended up getting it to work, but not right now!

What am i doing wrong? It used to work fine before!!! This blows!!! I know everything is fine, and not fried, because sometimes, it will post. Only on pci video card. I SPENT 5 HOURS LAST NIGHT TRYING TO GET IT TO WORK!!! I would read the manual but, i am supposed to get it in 3 hours, when my brother gets home. No beeps nothing. I tried everything in another mobo and everything is fine. It is definetly the motherboard.

What can i do? I tried everything! I finally get all my stuff working great, and this **** happens!!!!
Sorry for the language 15-year-olds do that when they're pissed off ALOT!!!

I know it definetly isn't fried!! Anyone with a BF6 can tell me what to do?

[marty]

You can probably download the manual from Abit.

Also see the posts in the thread "Troubles with Abit BF6 mobo" in the Intel Motherboard section of this forum. They involve a different way to reset the CMOS that holds the BIOS info. The manual will likely not be as detailed as this interested thread.

[marty]

Sorry Carmine, I guess I was asking you to read your own suggestion? I'm such a dope at times.

[Carmine_Paterno]

i know, i am the one who wrote the article how to get it back up. This really fricken blows. It works with the pci video card. But with the agp, it give me crap and doesn't beep, doens't post, doesn't do crap!!!

Sometimes it will, i just have to get lucky which isn't right, i want it to work normally not this luck ****!

[Carmine_Paterno]

LoL no problem....dun worry, i would have probably read it, i am really tired i have been up for 3 days straight and really fustrated

[Carmine_Paterno]

O right, i got it to boot up with the pci video card, but for some strange reason, now it doesn't see the temps in sisandra, and it won't restart!

[Tim-]

In the "integrated peripherals" section of the bios is a command called "init display first" that tells the MB which port (PCI or AGP) to initialize first. You might try playing with that. Make sure that your video bios caching is turned off in the bios as well. (you'll want to enable it again once it works) Set your AGP aperture to 64 or less and try again. Also, tell the bios to assign an interrupt for the VGA. Disable video shadowing also.

These may not be the settings you will want to run, but it may be a starting point to get you running again.

[Carmine_Paterno]

Tim.....Thank you soooo much for replying! I was waiting for you to come online! I stayed up all night and had no luck (5 hours). Well right now i am in windows on my BF6 (p3 450) @ 1.65v 500mhz (2.0v default) and running seti. Seems stable. I am running on a PCI video card right now....going to reboot and try what you said! THANK YOU!!!~~~!!!

[Carmine_Paterno]

TIM!!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!! Thank you sooo much.....i am greatly in your debt! I don't know what the problem was, i don't think it was what you said, but after taking out the cpu and replacing it back in, resetting the cmos, and taking out the radeon and putting it back it in, it posted!!!! THANK YOU!!! I am soooo happy....no i can put in my Fastrak ata 66 raid card!!! YES!! uuuhhhhooooo hope that doesn't cause problems!