Is my motherboard showing near-to-death symptoms?


  1. Posts : 2,047
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-BIT
       #1

    Is my motherboard showing near-to-death symptoms?


    I've noticed this yesterday. My PC will not boot past the BIOS splash screen (My motherboard is MSI MS-7525 and therefore is OEM and not supported by MSI.) Is the motherboard going to die? I'm thinking of getting any G31 Motherboards (Too lazy to install drivers) and I need an upgrade to Core 2 Quad.
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  2. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #2

    No, given the limited description it sounds more like a hard drive problem or a corrupted OS.

    When you start a PC the motherboard runs two tests: the POST and then discovering and naming devices, the most important device being a hard drive with a bootable partition to hand off to.

    If the BIOS finds a bootable partition it hands off controll to the boot loader and that is it.
    If the BIOS can't find a bootable drive or partition then it displays a message saying so.

    A test: see if you can get into the BIOS settings. If all looks normal in there then there is probably nothing wrong with the motherboard.
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  3. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #3

    Use the one time boot key during post, does it give you the list ?

    Can you chose the hard drive ? What happens next ?
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  4. Posts : 2,047
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-BIT
    Thread Starter
       #4

    It displays all of the devices connected, including my USB Drive (I use ReadyBoost) but after that it will just freeze in there
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  5. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #5

    Try this:
    Disconnect all hard drives, optical drives, and all USB connected devices - except keyboard and mouse.

    Then boot and see if you get a "No operating system found" or " no bootable device" message.

    After noting that result, then connect one bootable device and try it again.

    Let us know the results of both.
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  6. Posts : 2,047
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-BIT
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Hmm the problem seems to be gone now.

    Thanks to everyone. If this happens again then I'll go buy a new motherboard :)
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  7. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #7

    It was most likely the usb drive.
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