motherboard won't boot

[tyski]

My Abit KX7-333R will not boot. After the RAID bios is done checking for devices (when the motherboard is supposed to give control to boot device), the system will go into some sort of error mode. I'm not exactly sure what happens, the monitor goes into standby and the cd-rom drives start blinking like the system has been restarted. I've tried many different configurations and the board just won't boot. The simplest config is with the fail-safe defaults and booting to a floppy, which doesn't work. Anybody have any ideas? Is the board inherently unstable, should I get a new motherboard? I have the mobo for about 2 months now and its worked well enough in that time. This issued started when I told windows to do a simple restart. Now it won't boot back up. The board does POST just fine though.

Thanks for any help,
Tyrel

 

[Zepper]

Boilerplate-01:
1- Usually drive data cable on upside down or only on half the pins or shifted a pin or two (usu Floppy or Zip drives).
2- RAM, CPU or AGP video card not seated properly, bent pin.
3- CMOS needs to be cleared.
.bh.