AN9 32X Wont Post, Diagnostic code 90

[loudog3114]

According to the manual, this code - 90 - means that eveything has been initialized fine and that the award bios should be taking over the boot process. How can I get this motherboard running again? I have reset the cmos several times.

[BUFF]

welcome
It helps others to help you if they know exactly what you are dealing with.
Please supply a full system specification incl. make & models.

[loudog3114]

ABIT AN9 32X
2X1GB OCZ PLATINUM 800
AMD 64X2 3400+
TT 500W PSU
BFGTECH 7950GT OC

Swapped the vid card, didnt fix it. Tried one stick of ram at a time, and different controllers, no good. Looking at either a mobo or cpu problem... but the again - the diagnostic panel on the mobo is basically saying its booting fine.

[loudog3114]

Bleh... seems to my like AC2005 (uGuru) is going through its startup process and passing the buck to the award bios which isnt responding. I thought these things had a backup bios or something along those lines for just that type of event?

[BUFF]

what happens if you use only 1 DIMM?

[loudog3114]

same, tried both dims - one at a time

[Lvcoyote]

Probably a messed up BIOS..... buy a new BIOS chip preflashed or if you know someone with a similar board you can hot flash it.