Motherboard freezes at startup

Kevin3014 · May 21, 2014

Hey guys!
I have an old PC. Whenever I try to turn it on, the PC gets stuck at the BIOS menu thing, I can't press Delete or Tab since the keyboard is fully unresponsive, but the Number Lock light lit up. The motherboard is an old Asus P5G-MX.

My specs:
Intel Pentium Dual Core E2180
1x1GB RAM
GT 210 1GB GPU
Hitachi 160 GB HDD

I have disconnected everything from the USB ports, tried removing and inserting the HDD cable, removed and reinserted the CMOS battery. I'm kinda helpless now.

Any help would be appreciated!

Kevin

scout_03 · May 22, 2014

i would test that hitachi hdd .

Kevin3014 · May 22, 2014

Hey!

I removed the HDD's wire which connects to the MoBo, and my MoBo booted up just fine. But when I connected it again, it got frozen again. So I inserted Windows 7's disk, and while the setup was loading I connected the HDD and MoBo together, and the partitions were shown on "Where do you want to install Windows". But when I click next it shows "Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition. See the Setup log files for more information." It also shows "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."
I'm kinda confused now. :/

Kevin

scout_03 · May 22, 2014

this drive need to be test it seams to me that it gone fail so that why you have issue with the os install on it the best would be to get another one to put the os on .

Kevin3014 · May 23, 2014

So you mean I need to get another Motherboard?

scout_03 · May 23, 2014

not the board but could be a hdd this the fitness tool for it http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads

Kevin3014 · May 24, 2014

scout_03 :

Hey bro!

I figured out the problem, I went to the BIOS menu, selected my HDD and then changed "LBA/Large Mode" from Auto to Disable, and then I deleted "System Reserved" partition in the Windows 7 setup, and after that I restarted my PC and hurrah! It allowed me to install the OS!

scout_03 · May 24, 2014

good you post the answer to the forum that will help other with the same issue .

Kevin3014 · May 25, 2014

scout_03 :

Yeah, and hey since I'm kinda new here, is there a way to mark this thread as Solved?

scout_03 · May 25, 2014

mod will close it as solve .

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