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My system has been humming along nicely for the past few months. All of the sudden, after a restart, it just keeps on rebooting endlessly after the `Verfying DMI...' stage (there were no bios, hardware or software changes prior to this). After some trial and error, I discovered this:

I can use a PCI card in either slot 2 or 3 but not both of them together. My sound card and nic has been in these 2 slots ( becos they are non-shared) all the time and there was no problems until today .

Everytime I go the the Advance Chipset menu in the BIOS, it locks up and I cannot move the cursor and have to do a hard reset.

Is this mobo beyond help? Are these the first symtoms that the board is going to die soon? Should I try to RMA the board? I really like this board, it is rock stable running my P3-700 at 148fsb (stable at 153 for everything except 3Dmark2k)

Any Abit experts out there who can shed some light on this?

Thanks.

[LutaWicasa]

Well I won't be any REAL help, but the guy I bought my board from was having lock-up probs in advanced chipset also. Since the board got here I have had no such probs, so my thinking is either bad memory or PSU. With my board I have used 2 different PSU's, no prob. The only mem I've used is my current Kingmax 150. Why don't ya post entire system and we'll see if we can get this sorted out?

[QSW]

I just tried putting different PCI cards from my other computers into slot 2 and 3, same results. The weird part is that with either slot occupied, everything is fine, but no go when both are occupied.

I was trying to bring down the ram to 3-3-3 but the lock up in the advance chipset menu prevented me from doing that. Initially I thot it was due to overclocking, but the system was running fine for a few months.

Here my system specs:
BX6R2
P3-700@1036
2 x 128mb Mushkin Rev 2
Adaptec 3950u2
3Com 905B
USR 56k Modem
Hollywood Plus Card
Voodoo TV
MSI GeforceMX 816
WD 450AA hdd
2 IBM dnse 18GB u2w hdd
Pioneer 305S dvd-rom
Yamaha 8424S cdrw