Killed my Abit KT7A Raid

[3DMike]

God I hate it when that happens Especially with such a mild overclock going on. Let me explain; (Bear with me this could get long and ugly!)
Abit KT7AR,
1Ghz T-bird,
256Mb pc133 micron ram.
Geforcr 2 GTS 32Mb
2*20Gig IBM drives,
SOny 40 speed CDROM
Iomega Zip CD
etc.....

I've had this running at 10*133 in the past, but had turned it down cos I was worried about the heat. Afte r putting in three case fans and fitting a thermo engine with delta fan I tried again. This time I tried it slowly: 10*112 fine, then 10*120 fine.... Until I started using it!

Playing Black and white the soound stopped, I quit into windows, and tried to reboot. No joy, on POST the memory counted up OK, drives detected OK, but reported registry errors so wouldn't get into windoze.

Fine me thinks, boot from floppy and fix registry. Message: "Floppy Dive Fail (40)" Bugger! Try to boot from CD "ATAPI CD Drive Fail" Big Bugger!. The system asked me to boot in safe mode, Ok says I do it! No says system, your registry is shafted. It left me in a black screen with a funny prompt C> rather than the usual C:\ couldn't enter any DOS commands here, all I got was "File or command does not exist".

Has my Mobo given up the ghost? It seems unlikely that all of my drives would fail in one go. I presume it can't really be a registry error as the drives can't even be read. I cant work out why this happened 120Mz bus should easily be possible and I've done way more before.

Any suggestions before I RMA the board, cos if it aint bust and I send it back they'll charge me a load to look at it.

Thanks in for reading this far.
Mike

 

[Random Horowitz]

REset the BIOS and then boot again set everything to Default settings and see what happends?

What Operating System are you using? I had ME on my computer and I got the same errors when I was testing my CPU trying to get a higher overclock. I now use WIN2k which is better. I would also check your bridges did you lock them? Or were they locked when you got the cPU? I fyou locked them the lock might have worn off.

And at the very end try reformatting and reinstall everything.

 

[3DMike]

Tried resetting BIOS, BIOS boots with default settings but then hangs just after POST and before windows. I was running windows ME. If only I could get as far as a DOS prompt the I could get to work reinstalling. Alas I can't even get this far as none of the drives, HDD, CD or floppy are reading, although power lights on CD drives flash.

Any other ideas anyone?

Edit: Oh yeah and the L! bridges are unlocked, was done with conductive pen by overclock.co.uk, I checked the links, they are still there and not melted or anything!?

 

[supraway]

Try disabling 'PNP aware OS' in the BIOS and see what happens.

 

[Fiz]

I had a similar problem, I fixed by going into BIOS and redetecting the drives in there. For some reason when I had tried for 1266, it couldn't find any of my drives. After I redetectd them in bios all was good.

Fiz

 

[3DMike]

Doesn't seem to matter what I do in the bios, or what speed I try and run things at. It just boots fine, says its found all the drives then wont go any further!

I still reckon its the board so its going to be on its way back to the dealer on Monday.