Motherboard Problem... need help

[Angryclown]

alright, this one is killing me, i'm starting to get paranoid here.
the computer hangs when loading win2k pro... the black screen with the white bar on the bottom... as soon as that bar fills up the computer freezes.
i thought that it was a windows problem, so i tried your normal things like safe mode and stuff like that, but nothing, it would still freeze when trying to load windows. so i pulled out the drive and put it in another computer and it boots fine.
so ok, technically, the hard drive and files in it, is not the problem, right? well it has to be something else, so i swapped the ram, but it still froze on me, the power supply, cpu, removed all the cards... and devices... and it stills hangs when trying to load win2k.
i loaded the default setup in the BIOS as well... nothing.
i need to know if there is any troubleshooting step i'm missing... i don't have a spare motherboard that supports AMD processors.
i don't know if this helps, but the reason why i think the motherboard might be the problem, besides all of these trouble shooting steps that didn't work... is that earlier... it appeared that the CPU died. the computer wouldn't even boot, and i got no screen. so i bought a new CPU, installed it, and at least it's goes through POST... but like i said, it just hangs in the booting of win2k.
(it appeared and smelt like the CPU was cooked, hence me thinking the first CPU was dead.)
if anyone has ever run across something like this, please let me know... the motherboard is:
ASUS A7V133-C m/b, VIA KT-133A
AMD athlon 1ghz cpu
pc133 sdram 256megs


thank you

 

[Mulga]

It would seem you have done everything you could, that just leaves the motherboard I'm afraid, unless.... Why did the first CPU fry? There must have been a cause and if that has not been corrected it could be happening again. Are you sure the heatsink is mounted correctly, it is possible to mount it 180 degrees out and if you do so it will not contact the CPU correctly and cook it in short order. I assume you have checked that the fan is functioning correctly.
Also I have known a faulty motherboard to continually cook CPUs, it was shorting and putting too high a voltage into them. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.