Bootup Problem with PII system

[Nelson]

I'm having a problem booting up my system. The hardware involves

Motherboard: ASUS P2L97 (Award BIOS)
CPU: Pentium II 233
RAM: 64M SDRAM

On power up, the CPU is identified, the memory is tested and OK, then the system hangs on. Can't get into the BIOS setup either. I've stripped everything off to a bare system (motherboard, CPU, RAM, video card). No changes to the system were made prior to this happening. If I remove the RAM and reboot, I get the single beep indicating a RAM problem, so at least part of the POST is working. I suspect the CPU is fried (was getting a overheating problem a few times, but it seemed to go away) but I would hate to go out and get a replacement CPU and find out it's a motherboard problem. Anybody experience anything similar or have any suggestions or advice

Thanks in advance

Nelson

[jokostel]

i suspect its your memory...try a different slot or different memory....
if the cpu was bad it wouldn't even have posed and the biod diag would at least give you the code to tell you such....
but at least try different memory before you get a new cpu....
i had the same type of problem.... the infamous blue screen of death.....
had to remove one of my 32mb sdram dimm chips..... now im only running on 32mb......


tell ya one thing.... im going name brand from now or buy generics only from high stat deistributors.....
I HATE SIEMANS MEMORY!!!!!

[MR COMPUTER]

Have you tried clearing the cmos jumper? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[skywalker[TSG]]

this can also be a probb that the comp cannot comunicate with the harddrive ive had a similar prob on my comp it was enough to put the IDE cabel back in to the hardrive because it had became lose

so check all the cables before thinking its all dead

i can be a mem probb but then it wouldent start at all