Abit IP35-E Wont POST or boot

Posted on the January 8th, 2009 under Hardware by admin

If you have an Abit IP35-E motherboard and your computer suddenly wont boot then this is the help you need.

The Problem: You go to turn on your computer and all the power and fans come on but there is no POST (power on self test) beep and the machine wont boot. Instead the computer just stays on with the screen remaining blank.

Solution: Firstly turn the machine off and remove all of your USB devices and any other non essential adapters. Boot up the computer and you should get an error message..

BIOS ROM Checksum Error
Detecting floppy drive A media
Drive A error. System halt

This will lead you to believe and many people will inform you that you need to flash the BIOS. This isn’t true. That’s because without getting to some kind of command prompt this is impossible.

The Solution: Remove your RAM! If you have two or more sticks then remove them until you have just one and try booting up again. Make sure to try each stick of RAM on its own. If you only have one stick of RAM then I’d suggest borrowing the same kind or any compatible memory you can get your hands on.

Your computer should boot normally and possibly bring up an error about not being able to detect the CPU. You should be prompted to press F1 to continue, do that and you should go into Windows. I then powered back down and put the stick of RAM back in and again Windows booted fine but only listed one stick (1GB) as being installed.

And in case you’re wondering the RAM is Crucial Ballistix (I think it’s the DDR2 PC2-6400/DDR2-800).