Think a new MB is bad...?? or something bad wrong [View All]

[karlrschneider]

Upgrading my friend's machine with a new motherboard. Chaintech socket A, AMD Sempron 2300+, 512MB DDR, no cards installed yet but onboard video working okay. Problem(s): Takes about 3 1/2 minutes to get past the BIOS screen during which it correctly identifies the IDE drive which I know is good and have tried 2 others just to be sure but it cannot boot to the HD. I can boot to a DOS floppy and FDISK says "error reading from drive" So it can't see the partition info or anything. I've loaded Optimum BIOS defaults and disable onboard peripherals except the video, all the caches are enabled...bla bla. It's as if the thing is running at about 5 MHZ instead of 1400. (the 2300+ is a model number not the CPU speed) Damn thing driving me crazy...any ideas?
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