Could my board be bad?

[surrealchereal]

MSI KT 7 Turbo
3D prophet 4500 video card
Sony CD rom
128 mg ram stick (one)

Now when it posts in addition what happened listed below, the Ram count will just circle and circle. Never stopping.
Could it be a virus?

It booted and in stalled windoz then, in the bios post...

1. OOPS no hard drive, after 1st boot.
2. OOPS no CD ROM, after 2nd boot.
3. OOPS no floppy, after 3rd boot.
4. OOPS I can't get the BIOS to detect anything except the floppy.
5. Wah! I am sad.

It booted to windoz after 1. and 2 on the list hasn't since but now the floppy (I put it back)is working again I still can't get it to see the hard drive. Should I try new cables? Or is it the kind of cable I'm using? I've tried a couple but not brand new ones. I'm at a loss. Any Ideas on what I did wrong? Or Could it really be a bad board?

[This message has been edited by surrealchereal (edited 05-30-2001).]

[golfcart]

I had a board do the same exact thing, different manufacturer but same problems. When I noticed the POST acting funny, I stuck a floppy in to flash the bios and it never made it past the memory count, just did it over and over. Tried a few different sticks of known-good ram to no avail. Ended up returning it and the new one worked just fine. I would suggest trying it with a different stick of ram and minimal components.

[surrealchereal]

The first thing girl genus figgerd out was the HD was indeed bad. (it was the one Maxtor sent to replace one that was confirmed by their software as bad)
Got another one to boot. I am installing the ops system now..... I ignored the memory spin for now so elated to not see
BOOT DISK FAILURE.
will update.

[This message has been edited by surrealchereal (edited 05-31-2001).]

[golfcart]

Sounds good so far. Sorry about your luck with maxtor http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif