Mobo Hangs

[rshell777]

I just installed an FIC k8-800T Mobo, with a clawhammer cpu. 512 meg Ram, 160 gig Seagate harddrive. After hooking everything up, I can get to the CMOS, but that's about it. There for a while I could boot from either the CD or the Floppy, but now it hangs at the screen that say's " Press Del for CMOS" any Ideas? Bout ready to toss that Socket 754 and go with something else.

[Uranium-235]

disconnect everything except what is basically needed to boot. disconnect HD, mouse, kb, USB, etc, etc.

[Jason]

Try booting with only one stick of ram, faulty ram, or placing the ram in the wrong sockets can cause problems. Also check to see that your IDE and CD rom drives are not on the same cable and both set to the same thing, I.E. Master or slave. Take both of these drives out of cable select if they are set to that. Second if your HD is a western digital and the only drive on the cable then remove the master/slave jumper from the back as WD's want no jumper when they are the only drive.