Re: How to diagnose a bad motherboard?
Biostar? In my limited experience, I haven't run across many good things said about Biostar's boards except they tend to be inexpensive. When I was building my computer a few months back I was looking at one and was warned away by many more experienced people since I was building my machine for longevity. I'm sure they work fine for many people, but...
As with all hardware its sort of a crapshoot. I don't know anything about your budget, etc, but since it really seems like your RAM isn't the problem, you can get a high quality board for $70-90.
I work in car parts, so I understand the frustration of "what if that doesn't fix it" but there's always a balance of "how much effort do I put into making 100% certain this is the problem" and "I'm fairly certain this is it, can I afford to eat $90 if it doesn't fix my problem?"
Unless you can get it RMA'd under a warranty of some sort, I'd really suggest a different manufacturer like Gigabyte or Asus if replacement is the route you decide to go.
Gigabyte GA-MA785G-UD3H motherboard, AMD Athalon II X2 2.8 dual core processor, 2gig Kingston DDR2800 RAM, 1 WD 640gig Caviar Green SATA drive
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