Intel board shows post screen but no response or bios access

[thechosenhalfblood]

I was given a board and cpu last week from someone who works in the tech industry. The board is an Intel D83848-503 (I think essentially the DX38BT). It has the x38 chipset and has a core 2 extreme i7 in it. The system turns on and shows the post screen, however I cannot get any response (such as enter bios). After a certain number of key presses the board starts beeping at every key press.

I have tried booting without memory (and I got the standard beeps). I also checked the memory in another pc and it worked fine. I also replaced the on-board battery.

From what I can tell, my guess is that this is some sort of bios issue. The system detects key presses and shows the post screen but does not respond. If I boot it in normal or config mode (by moving the bios jumper) it does the same thing. However, if I boot in recovery mode it just cycles power. I tried booting in recovery mode with a usb drive that has the .bio update but the system would start up, run for a few seconds then turn off and repeat.

Anybody have any ideas? Thanks.

Also, might be of note, the memory is very hot and hurts to touch even several minutes after the system has been turned off.

 

[Roberto Bustos]

It sounds to me like a BIOS problem. it might have become corrupt. if the memory is overheating, the voltage to it is incorrectly set (BIOS setting). It *should* auto detect it, and set the right parameters, but it isn't happening (again, BIOS is responsible to auto-detect).

If the motherboard has a BIOS back-up (2 of them), try to find out the procedure to make the other one start the motherboard. On mine, it was shorting 2 pins on it, powering up for a few seconds, turn off, remove the short, and turn back on.

I hope this helped.

Robert