I don't know what is with motherboards these days but they all seem to break after a year of normal use. The king of the crappy motherboards is devenitely ASUS. My AMD 2800 XP+ is now on it's third(!) motherboard...

So now I have a MSI K7N2 Delta motherboard with nForce 2. After booting to grub once it now doesn't boot anymore... at all. I can't even get into the BIOS setup. Luckely there is this D-bracket 2 thing delivered with this board that has 4 LEDs wich indicate the boot process. I'll give you a discription what happens during the boot process and what where it hangs:

Edit: See my signature for the rest of the hardware. What could be the problem?

Probably the only thing you an do it return the mobo to the manufacturer and ask them to fix it. I assume it's still under warranty?

Have a look at the mainboard manual. There should be some explanation what this means. But if it's still under warranty the best is to send it back ...

I've bought it a few days ago so it's still under warrenty. But before I send it back by mail I want to make sure that I didn't do anything stupid first (like pluging in firewire, or installing my soundcard in the wrong PCI slot (Creative soundcards don't like all PCI slots on your motherboard)).

I'm wondering if maybe the memory is dead because after the bios signing on the memory test starts and if it starts before the LEDs change and then the sytsem hangs it might be the memory.

I thought that maybe somebody had experience with my problem before and could tell me something like "your front USB is probably not pluged in the right way wich causes a system crash at startup". But ofcourse thanks to everybody posting in my thread

Well, there are so many possibilities ...
I just locked at the manual and see what you meant with the led's. Seems there is something wrong with the BIOS. I suggest you check the battery and try clearing the CMOS (JBAT1, the manual will tell you how to do this). If this doesn't help send the mainboard back.

Thank you for your time. There are so many possibilitys indeed. I'm going to bed soon and tommorow night I'm goint to clear the CMOS first. If it doesn't work I'll try one RAM DIMM at the time (switch them to see if one might be damaged when I installed my new motherboard.)

On a different topic, there's no way that you should need 3 mobos in 3 years. If you are buying refurbished/used boards, I'd strongly recommend switching to new equipment, even if it does cost more. Secondly, are you using a PSU that is adequate for your system? It looks like you've got a 400W PSU, which should be enough, but I'd suspect that perhaps it (meaning the PSU) is damaged in some way. Faulty PSU's can create all kinds of trouble and mischief, and if that PSU has been present for all 3 mobo failures, then if I were you I'd consider replacing it ASAP

Me, my friends and my familie ALL have ASUS motherboards, bought at different times, different platforms (amd, amd64, intell) from different shops assamled by different people and all first-handed. They all had problems with PC's not booting correctly over time (got worse when time increased) in the end their computers were all dead... unill they bought different motherboards.

I had 4 different PSU's (1 with my old case, after buying a ATX motherboard I needed a bigger case with a different PSU. Then I bought a 500watt PSU just in case wich was a cheap one. When the seconds motherboard died the shop where I bought the motherboard lended me a Coolermaster 550 watt PSU to check if my old PSU caused problems. No difference, but in the end I bought a good, silent Zalman 400watt)