Oh great. Locking up while booting.

[Punk]

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1027113085#post1027113085

original post there. I'm having withdrawals guys... help me :/

My only internet access is here at school.

[ZWarrior]

For the sake of the less brilliant I have copied it below.

 Lockup's while booting

Rig Specs:
MSI KT3 Ultra 2
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512 MB pc2700
Radeon 9800 pro (128MB)
(2) 80 GB WD HD's w/ 8MB Cache
SoundBlaster Audigy Retail
Windows XP Professional SP2

I was at a LAN party just a few nights ago and I turned it on and heard 3 beeps so I knew a stick of RAM was bad... I pulled that out (previously had a 512 and a 256 stick and now im down to my 512 MB of ram) And then I noticed when I booted it was a "beepbeep...beeeep" and had to change the battery on the mobo. I put the new battery in and set the BIOS back the way it was supposed to be and now it doesnt even reach windows. the system locks up while in the BIOS, while trying to boot to windows, before it gets past the VGA bios. Sometimes I will get an error on my monitor saying the range is bad Hz and whatever is out of range. So I put in my older video card (GeForce 4 Ti4600) to see if it is the video card that is the issue. Same problems. (the monitor sometimes displays this error and other times it doesn't). Any other suggestions? This is my only computer and I'm accessing the internet at school. Thanks

It would seem to me that you suffered a cascading failure of the mobo.  Have you tried another board?

My reasoning is that the 3 beeps is generally RAM, and if I understand the description, you then got a video error, and now proc speed error.  changing out parts has not helped.

Try a different proc, and then a different mobo.

here are some other resources for you:
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/tshooting/BasicTroubleshootingGuideV.3.pdf
http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=BIOS+beep+codes

Let us know what you find!

[Boomslang]

MSI also said that it could be a grounding problem... The M/B is grounded out on the case and will not get passed the bios. I have two MSI M/B one with the same problem after I got it back from repair. The M/B sounds like its bad, but it could be a power supply, lack of power.

It takes two weeks for MSI to replace the M/B. I  went to a different brand MSI uses bad capacitors made in China

[opiesilver]

Check to see if your ATX connector has any burn marks or discolored plastic.