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When I rebuilt my desktop box six months ago, I picked an ASUS M2N-E motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64x2 5600+ and 2 GB of G.Skill DDR2.
That config has been running mostly smooth for quite a while. Once last year, I remember trying to boot the computer, the BIOS starts showing up and then nothing happens. It would look like this and just sit there:
That was once and it stopped the next day. And now it's doing this again.
Eventually if I let it sit there for 15 minutes or more, the BIOS might concede to start but the whole thing seems pretty flaky. It might not start or Windows might crash during the boot or something like the sound chip might not be working at all.
A quick search online seem to indicate that the ASUS M2N-E has frequent boot issues and the culprit might be the support of the memory. And I'm not even overclocking mine, so it's clearly a sign of a flaky series of motherboard. What is strange is that for me most of the time it had worked just fine (until now at least) and that eventually the board boots. Maybe because I run the conservative BIOS settings.
Reports from forums indicate that some BIOS updates might fix this so I'll see what the latest BIOS update does.
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